New For 2024 Exploring The 1200 Ton Unfinished Obelisk At Aswan In Egypt

Okay, we're inside the pit of the unfinished obelisk at Aswan, estimated weight 1,200 tons. Okay, you're allowed to climb down through here, but you're not allowed to go up on top, because they can see you from there, but they can't from here. This is obviously pounded away. But look at this, this is the shape of a chocolate. You're not going to let me go up there? Sure. Is it okay if I come through this way? We can't, I think you might be trying to talk to the marina if you want to. Okay. That's the end? Yeah, but you can go to the end. Okay. And then come back this way and turn left and go back up. Okay. Yeah, it's very rare to be able to do this. Well, that's why Mo's got the pole. We have to turn left. After you go to the end. Look at that thing, it's not symmetrical. It's almost look like, you see, this triangle, it's very even corners, almost like there's something like a sport boat, like a shuffle almost, isn't it? Yeah, it could have been like a roughing tool. Then you have something a little more refined doing this kind of work. But why that's there? Yeah, it's almost like it does this kind of motion. Right. And these are all the scoop marks, right? On the floor. Yeah, these are all the stairs. Again, I think these are done with like a hand tool. It's like they used to remove it when they were finally ready to go. And you see that flat vertical surface, so obviously stuff was taken out of there. Are those modern cuts up there or old scoop marks? Old. Yeah. Oh, look, there's some cave painting type stuff, I don't know if that's old or not. And there you have the Greco-Roman style, which is much cruder. OK, you can come this way if you want. Very good. Just going to show how hard we've been working with it. Brian, what are we looking at over here? What are we looking at over here? All these big scoop marks. So this would be their attempt to like cut it out from the bottom. Yeah. It's so good to see this for real. Yeah. There's no, that would be so awkward. It doesn't even look like they used a diorite bowl. Yeah. Well, there's actually a diorite bowl at the bottom here. You can practice with it if you want. These lines are so uniform, right? You know? Yeah. Oh, well, here you see that horizontally, they're all basically the same. Same width, same pattern. Same curvature as well. Yeah. Like I said, Brian, it's almost like someone stood there and just going, meh. I think so. Yeah. I think it was a handheld device. And here you can see where they almost got to the point of being able to separate both sides. Oh, yeah. And then the foot come in pretty deep as well. Brian, do you want to look here for a second? Sure. Awesome. Thank you. Okay. Hey, is this scoop underneath there too? It is. Yeah. It's pretty deep too. Both sides, right? Yeah. They come within a foot of each other. Oh, wow. Where'd they get that close? At the tip, I believe. Right.