Block of Ages – Egypt’s Unfinished Obelisk

It is a mighty thing, this massive red-granite obelisk, lying under a scalding sky in the open-air museum that is Egypt’s Aswan quarries. Some might thank the stars that Egypt’s 3500-year-old Unfinished Obelisk remained unfinished, forever attached umbilically to home soil.

It has meant that the legions of treasure hunters trawling the land of the pharaohs could never purloin it as they did so many of its siblings.

Here is a screenshot and link to my story published on February 16, 2019 in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age Traveller: http://www.traveller.com.au/legions-and-legends-aswans-unfinished-obelisk-h1b47d#ixzz5gDgRy0K8

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