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  2. Unfinished obelisk - Wikipedia

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    The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk [citation needed] and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt. It was studied in detail by Reginald Engelbach in 1922. [1] The unfinished obelisk in its quarry at Aswan, 1990

  3. Stone quarries of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The quarries and the stone temples here are visible from boats on the Nile. The quarry was active sometime during the Old Kingdom through the Late Period and remains largely intact in modern time. [1] Typical materials known from this site are: Sandstone [1] Some of the monuments known to come from this site are: Temple of Horemheb

  4. Aswan - Wikipedia

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    Aswan includes five monuments within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae; these are the Old and Middle Kingdom tombs of Qubbet el-Hawa, the town of Elephantine, the stone quarries and Unfinished Obelisk, the Monastery of St. Simeon and the Fatimid Cemetery. [6]

  5. List of Egyptian obelisks - Wikipedia

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    The largest known obelisk, the unfinished obelisk, was never erected and was discovered in its original quarry. It is nearly one-third larger than the largest ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected (the Lateran Obelisk in Rome); if finished it would have measured around 41.75 metres (137.0 ft) [ 6 ] and would have weighed nearly 1,090 tonnes ...

  6. International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia

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    Sites in their original location, north of the Aswan Low Dam [36] – although these five sites are grouped within the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae", they are neither Nubian, nor between Abu Simbel and Philae Qubbet el-Hawa (Old and Middle Kingdom Tombs) Ruins of town of Elephantine; Stone quarries and Unfinished obelisk, Aswan

  7. Wadi el-Hudi - Wikipedia

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    His book, Dare me to the Desert, was published in 1967 and describes several regions of the Eastern Desert, including Wadi el-Hudi. [30] After reports that inscriptions were being taken from Wadi el-Hudi and sold, he and his colleagues informed the Antiquities Service to protect the inscriptions at Wadi el-Hudi. 40 inscriptions were stored them ...

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  9. Gebel el-Silsila - Wikipedia

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    Survey work of the east bank has revealed 49 quarries, the largest being Quarry 34 (Q34) (reviewed in 7 partitions due to its immensity) containing 54 stone huts. The East bank holds several stele from the time of Amenhotep III. The stele and their texts are described in Karl Richard Lepsius' Denkmahler. The stelae are damaged, but one of them ...