Assouan (Syène), Carrières de Granit - Ancien Système d'Extraction
Félix Teynard French
Printer Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie
Not on view
Most of the colossi and obelisks of ancient Egypt were cut from this granite quarry in Nubia. The clean diagonal mass in the center is an unfinished obelisk, evidently abandoned when a crack traveled down its 100-foot length. For Teynard, a civil engineer intent on describing the sites and monuments along the Nile, it served as a pointer sighting a distant temple just visible on the horizon.
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