/2018/07/20/ancient-granite-quarry-in-aswan-egypt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ancient-granite-quarry-in-aswan-egyptExplore The World With Us One Country At A TimeTue, 09 Feb 2021 17:23:03 +0000hourly1/2018/07/20/ancient-granite-quarry-in-aswan-egypt/comment-page-1/#comment-11133Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:23:03 +0000/?p=22729#comment-11133[…] 4 – Our first stop of the day was to visit an ancient quarry where the giant obelisks that we had seen in Luxor had been carved in single pieces out of the […]

]]>/2018/07/20/ancient-granite-quarry-in-aswan-egypt/comment-page-1/#comment-10773Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:39:35 +0000/?p=22729#comment-10773[…] The Ancient Granite Quarry – One of the first things we visited when we arrived in Aswan was the northern quarry, which contains an unfinished obelisk. Most of the granite that was used in ancient Egypt was mined from the quarries of Aswan and carried up the Nile on boats. It must have been extremely hard work to mine granite by chipping away at it with other stones. The day that we arrived in Aswan it was 114 degrees Fahrenheit (about 44.5 degrees Celsius), so we can only imagine how difficult it was for the workers in ancient time to carve out the large rocks in order to create the obelisks and other temple pieces. […]

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