Queen Hatshepsut gave the order for the Unfinished Obelisk Aswan during the Eighteenth Dynasty and if it had ever been finished it would have reached an impressive forty two meters high and weighed somewhere around one thousand two hundred tons which is well over one thousand ninety tons and that would have made it the largest obelisk ever shaped by human hands in Egypt’s long history but when deep cracks showed up in the granite the entire project stopped and the huge stone was left where it still lies today resting in the same quarry frozen in its last moment of work and forever unfinished

Even though this huge block was never lifted to stand tall it still proves just how clever and skilled the ancient Egyptian builders were because when you look at it you see exactly how they worked stone with simple tools like dolerite balls and clever methods to cut massive pieces straight from solid rock and the Unfinished Obelisk holds a deeper meaning too since it shows how the earth and the divine were always connected for these people with the sun god Ra at the center of their faith and daily life