The Unfinished Obelisk 🗿💥 - Ancient Egypt's "What Could Have Been"!

📍 Where & Why? Lying in Aswan's granite quarries, this abandoned monument reveals secrets of ancient engineering—and one catastrophic crack that changed history! 📜 Backstory: • Commissioned by Queen Hatshepsut (1508-1458 BCE) to outshine Karnak’s Lateran Obelisk. • Dream Stats: Would’ve been 42m tall (a 10-story building!) and weighed 1,090 tons (≈200 elephants!). 🐘💔 • Epic Fail: A hidden granite fissure forced workers to abandon it mid-carving—still attached to bedrock! 🔍 Why Visit? ✅ Touch chisel marks from 3,500-year-old tools. ✅ See "crack of doom" that doomed the project. ✅ Learn obelisk logistics: How did Egyptians plan to move this behemoth?! (Spoiler: Wet sand + sledges + 1,000 workers.) #UnfinishedObelisk #AncientFail #Hatshepsut #AswanSecrets #EngineeringMarvel