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Up in the mountain side of Aswan was one of the obelisk
quarries, and here lies a piece that never was finished. A flaw in the rock was found half
way into the process, finished, it would have become the single heaviest piece of stone ever
fashioned, weighing 1168 tons and 42 metres high. The Obelisk was ordered for one of Tuthmosis 3's additions
to the temple complex at Karnak.
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