egypt

When we were in Egypt one of the places we went to see was the broken Obelisk which was left by the ancient Egyptians.
Unfortunately the stone was of poor quality and it broke so they abandoned it

Our tour guide went up to where it was when other tours guides just said it was up there go and look

And where one had been removed

Note the markings on the end inside wall
Just leaves me wondering how they managed to lift and move something this size

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Yes I went here a few years ago . Fascinating. Wonderful holiday with 'cruise the nile . Com . Fabulous boat too. It was difficult for us two girls to walk off the boat , everytime we ventured out we were surrounded by aggressive sales men , pulled at , even money stolen out of my friends purse when she opened it to pay for a paper . We had to ask a man from the boat to walk with us , then they left us alone. But the trips out by air con coach were wonderful .

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What a fascinating question, Realspeed... How did they raise the 'needle' out of the ground..???

First of all, how did they manage to cut the lower (and concealed) edge? They must have found a method to undermine it - yet leave the cavity with a level base. How?

Then the lifting of the stone out of the hole. A-frames, perhaps?

There are so many unanswered questions here....

1994 and 1999. First Hopkins and Rais Abdel Aleem organized an experiment to tow a block of stone weighing about 25 tons. They prepared a path by embedding wooden rails into the ground and placing a sledge on them bearing a megalith weighing about 25 tons. Initially they used more than 100 people to try to tow it but were unable to budge it. Finally, with well over 130 people pulling at once and an additional dozen using levers to prod the sledge forward, they moved it. Over the course of a day, the workers towed it 10 to 20 feet. Despite problems with broken ropes, they proved the monument could be moved this way. Additional experiments were done in Egypt and other locations to tow megalithic stone with ancient technologies.

One experiment was to transport a small obelisk on a barge in the Nile River. The barge was built based on ancient Egyptian designs. It had to be very wide to handle the obelisk, with a 2 to 1 ratio length to width, and it was at least twice as long as the obelisk. The obelisk was about 10 feet long and no more than 5 tons. A barge big enough to transport the largest Egyptian obelisks with this ratio would have had to be close to 200 feet long and 100 feet wide.
You can read more details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk

Please do not bring in alien technology to this thread. Unknown technology, OK.

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WE found Egypt so interesting. we went with a company called Anatolian Sky who had only just started operations in the UK but had other offices in other countries

A first class company and when we went there was only about 35 people on board being November

Stick dance with a guest



Nubian dancer having fun with guests . the one he push (first pulled out} with his belly had been camel riding that day and was horse thru shouting. WE did visit the Nubian village as well

AS you can see we virtually had the boat which took around 350 people all to ourselves

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Istanbul one of my favourite cities has an Egyptian obelisk in the hippodrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_of_Theodosius

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Having been to Egypt and seen the pyramids,its how they built them leaves questions unanswered.Another thing that piques my interest is the Rosetta Stone,why was it written (carved upon),for whom was it written and how on earth did it survive.