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The 1,200-Ton Obelisk That's Still in the Quarry (Modern Cranes Can't Move It)

Look at this crack. One single crack in the granite. And because of this crack, the largest obelisk ever attempted was abandoned. 1,200 tons. 42 meters tall. 137 feet. Taller than a 10-story building. Heavier than 700 cars. The ancient Egyptians were carving it out of solid bedrock in Aswan. Making progress. Getting close to completion. Then this crack appeared. They stopped. Left it. Walked away. 3,500 years later, it's still there. THE UNFINISHED OBELISK. Here's what's remarkable: If this obelisk had been completed, we couldn't move it today. Modern mobile cranes max out around 1,600 tons lifting capacity at fixed locations - not transport capacity over rough terrain. Moving a 1,200-ton monolithic stone hundreds of miles? That's beyond modern mobile equipment capability. Yet the ancient Egyptians were planning to do exactly that. With Bronze Age technology. No steel. No modern cranes. No hydraulics. No engines. THE ENGINEERING PROCESS REVEALED: Because it's unfinished, we can see exactly how they did it: QUARRYING METHOD: Pounding stones (dolerite hammers) Trench excavation around the obelisk outline Undercutting - tunneling beneath 1,200 tons while it hung above Years of continuous work by hundreds of workers TRANSPORT PLAN: Sledges pulled by 3,000-4,000 workers Possibly wooden rollers reducing friction Earthen ramps using gravity assist Loading onto massive barges during Nile flood season River transport using current (200+ km journey) ERECTION THEORIES: Massive earthen ramp method Sand pit controlled descent method Lever and counterweight system Combination of techniques MODERN COMPARISON: Could we move it today? YES - with fixed cranes (Taisun crane: 20,000 ton capacity) But with MOBILE equipment? Transporting it over rough Egyptian terrain? That would require: Specialized heavy-lift transporters (SPMTs) Extensive ground preparation Temporary road construction Months of planning Tens of millions of dollars The ancient Egyptians did this routinely. With wood, rope, and Bronze Age engineering. THE SCALE: The Unfinished Obelisk would have been: 1/3 taller than the largest standing Egyptian obelisk Nearly 3X heavier than any erected obelisk The culmination of Egyptian obelisk engineering Only the crack stopped them. Not inability. OTHER EGYPTIAN OBELISKS: Lateran Obelisk (Rome): 455 tons - erected successfully Luxor Obelisk (Paris): 250 tons - took 2 years to move in 1836 Cleopatra's Needles (London/NYC): 220 tons each - nearly sank during 1800s transport The Romans - with more advanced technology - struggled to move Egyptian obelisks. The Egyptians created them. Moved them. Erected them. Routinely. VISIT THE UNFINISHED OBELISK: It's still there at Aswan quarries. You can walk around it. Touch it. See the ancient tool marks. A monument to Bronze Age ambition and engineering capability. --- 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to Pharaohs Legacy for engineering achievements that challenge modern capability. Music generated by Mubert https://mubert.com/render --- 📚 SOURCES: Aswan quarries archaeological documentation Ancient Egyptian quarrying techniques studies Modern heavy-lift engineering comparisons Obelisk transport historical records #AncientEgypt #Obelisk #EngineeringImpossibility #AncientEngineering #UnfinishedObelisk #BronzeAge #Aswan #AncientTechnology #Quarrying #MassiveStones