Unfinished obelisk
The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ancient obelisk
- Also known as: “unfinished obelisk”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Elephantine and Nubian Museum.
Elephantine
Island
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elephantine is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae".
Nubian Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Nubian Museum is an archaeological museum in Aswan, Upper Egypt. It was built in 23 November 1997 following the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia. Nubian Museum is situated 690 metres northwest of Unfinished obelisk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aswan and Shellal.
Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.
Shellal
Village
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt. It was the traditional northern frontier of the Nubian region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire. Shellal is situated 3 km south of Unfinished obelisk.
Unfinished obelisk
- Categories: obelisk, abandoned entity, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.07692° or 24° 4′ 37″ northLongitude
32.89544° or 32° 53′ 44″ eastOpen location code
7GPJ3VGW+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
way 243566979OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=obeliskOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q735438
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Unfinished obelisk” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المسلة الناقصة”
- Arabic: “مسلة ناقصةال”
- Catalan: “Obelisc inacabat d’Assuan”
- Dutch: “Onvoltooide obelisk van Aswan”
- Dutch: “Onvoltooide obelisk”
- French: “Obelisque brisé”
- French: “obélisque inachevé”
- French: “Obélisque inachevé”
- German: “Unvollendeter Obelisk von Assuan”
- German: “Unvollendeter Obelisk”
- Italian: “Obelisco incompiuto di Assuan”
- Japanese: “未完成のオベリスク”
- Korean: “미완성 오벨리스크”
- Newari: “सिमधंगु ओबेलिस्क”
- Persian: “هرمسنگ ناقص”
- Portuguese: “Obelisco inacabado de Assuã”
- Russian: “Незаконченный обелиск”
- Sinhala: “Unfinished obelisk”
- Sinhala: “නිම නොකළ ඔබලිස්කය”
- Spanish: “Obelisco inacabado de Asuan”
- Spanish: “Obelisco inacabado de Asuán”
- Spanish: “Obelisco inacabado”
- Ukrainian: “Незакінчений обеліск”
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