The Unfinished Obelisk Tour is where you find the tools of the pharaohs still around an obelisk. So, you feel as if they have just left them. Look more closely, and you will find drawings made by the hand of the ancient Egyptian engineer on the obelisk. These drawings reveal to you one of the greatest secrets of the Pharaonic civilization.
You are in front of one of the Pharaonic scripts that was written by the hands of a Pharaonic engineer! Then you feel as if the noble workers and that great engineer leader are on a break for a while and will return to complete their work. Thus, you are in the heart of the magic of history.
How did they make giant obelisks from a single piece of rare stone with a rectangular shaft?! How did they move this huge Aswan quarry obelisk from the place of industry, where it stands now, to the temples in Aswan, and Luxor, which was Thebes previously?! Also, how did they raise that giant obelisk in the heart of the temple to do the roles it was built for?!
The ancient Egyptians built the obelisks with a gilded, small pyramid above them. This small pyramid absorbs the sun’s rays and then spreads them everywhere.
After raising the obelisk, this gilded pyramid was set on top of the obelisk. It reflects the sun’s rays throughout the temple. It spreads the sun’s rays everywhere as if it were helping the solar deity, Amun, to be in the temple.
So the obelisk spreads this light throughout the temple with magic and unprecedented geometric grandeur. That was the primary goal of building obelisks.
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Unfinished Obelisk Facts
“Unfinished obelisk weight”
At this engineering historical site in front of this remarkable giant obelisk, you are in front of events from Hatshepsut (ca. 1473–1458 BC). Yes, these pharoanic tools, lines written by the engineer and all these details take you to the Hatshepsut era. She ordered to build the largest obelisk, weighing 1,168 tons and 42 meters high, that you are standing in front of now.
However, the work was abandoned because of defects in the stone and multiple cracks, which resulted in cracks in the Aswan quarry obelisk. So it wasn't completed.
The tour with Golavita will take you to all these details, living the history from a rare Pharaonic spot.