Unfinished obelisk lying horizontally in the middle of the picture. Aswan in Egypt is known for its granite. The Obelisk as it lies today is a 42m long monolith whose three sides can be seen. The structure is without any inscriptions and weighs 1,168 tons. It is the single heaviest obelisk in Egypt. iI the later stage of construction, the structure cited a flaw when breaking it free from its parent body. The creators in all their disappointment abandoned the structure which was not detached from the parent rock.