Excerpt from The Problem of the Obelisks, From a Study of the Unfinished, Obelisk at Aswan This book has been written.not only to give the general reader the results of the latest researches on the ages-old problem as to how the obeliks were extracted and erected quarry in 1921 and 1922 have already been published by the Antiquities Department, under the title of The Aswan Obelisk, with some remarks on the Ancient Engineering, of which this is practically a popular edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.