One of the greatest anomalies in Egypt is the unfinished obelisk, above located in the granite quarry at Aswan. Had it been completed, it would have weighed tons. Assertions that the hewing out was done with hand held stone pounders is at best comical.
The cuts and marks in the surface above were failed attempts by later cultures to try and recycle the monolith. In the bottom of the above photo you can see a long horizontal crack which coincides with the work stoppage; it seems that this flaw caused the crew to abandon the creation of this massive obelisk, and the scoop marks in the stone suggests that advanced technology was employed to do the shaping.
This huge recessed stone is one piece, and how it was shaped even baffles the two Australian engineers, and me, with the blue cap. Hand crafting such flat surfaces with the rather crude instruments of the dynastic Egyptians would have been near impossible, and the later Greeks and Romans also did not have tools to efficiently cut and polish this hard Aswan granite.
At the same location as the photo 2 up, we see another recessed block that was broken up for use by either the Greeks, Romans or even dynastic Egyptians. This would indicate that it could have been created prior to the time of the so called Pharaohs, by a mysterious culture that had high technology, as this stone is also very hard granite.
One of the 2 Colossi of Memnon; made of one piece of very hard quartzite stone, plus base. It is estimated to weigh tons, and the stone quarry from which it was extracted is more than miles away. The notion that it was dragged on wooden rollers to its present site or rafted down the Nile is laughed at by modern engineers. Broken remnant of a core drill hole at Karnak, in pink Aswan granite.
