The UNFINISHED OBELISK of Ancient Egypt
What would have been the largest single stone monument the Egyptians ever produced is sitting unfinished in Aswan quarry. It is over 3,000 years old. What can we learn about this mysterious object and the manner in which it is made? Dr. Adel Kelany provides some answers.
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► REFERENCES
On dolerite pounders:
https://www.academia.edu/10794091/DOLERITE_POUNDERS_PETROLOGY_SOURCES_AND_USE
On the fire-setting experiments:
https://www.academia.edu/18513199/8_Fire_setting_in_Ancient_Quarries_Ancient_Sources_New_Evidence_and_Experiments
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-09048-1_56
On the marks of the quarry workers:
https://www.academia.edu/5407065/Marks_of_the_Quarry_Workers_at_the_Unfinished_Obelisk_Quarry_Aswan_Egypt_Preliminary_Report
On block extraction (general):
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-015-7795-3_4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0899536201000859
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452321616303833
On transportation of obelisks:
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/obelisks-on-the-move/
https://library.seg.org/doi/abs/10.4133/sageep2013-240.1
http://historicvessels.com/queen-hatshepsuts-heavy-lift-obelisk-river-barge/
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=106621
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED438175.pdf
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