[DOC] [TLE] Obelisk - Wikipedia [PAR] An obelisk is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a 
pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. These were originally called "
tekhenu" by the builders, the Ancient Egyptians ... Ancient obelisks are monolithic
, that is, they consist of a single stone. ..... High Point Monument, Montague, New 
Jersey. [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ANCIENT HISTORY - StudyStack [PAR] IT WAS LONG A MYSTERY HOW EGYPTIANS CUT AND ERECTED THESE 
TAPERING MONOLITHIC POINTED PILLARS, OBELISKS. IN 55 & 54 B.C., HIS... [DOC] [TLE] obelisk | pillar | Britannica.com [PAR] Jul 6, 2016 ... Tapered monolithic pillar, originally erected in pairs at the entrances of ancient 
Egyptian temples. The Egyptian obelisk was carved from a single piece of stone, 
usually ... of cutting that particular monolith out of the quarry took seven months. 
... The quarrying and erecting of these pillars is a measure of the... [DOC] [TLE] The Unfinished Obelisk (Aswan, Egypt) | Ashtronort - History's ... [PAR] Monolithic Madness - The Unfinished Obelisk (Aswan, Egypt) The largest known 
... It has always puzzled me why the Egyptians chose to carve building blocks & 
statues from ... These are the Eight Giant Obelisks that remain in Egypt today: ... 
Carved from pink granite  Originally erected in Luxor at the south of the seventh
... [DOC] [TLE] 7 Fascinating Facts About Obelisks | Mental Floss [PAR] Jan 20, 2016 ... True obelisks as conceived by the ancient Egyptians are monolithic, or ... 
Nobody knows exactly why obelisks were built, or even how. ... use for tools (
iron's melting point is 1,538 C; the Egyptians wouldn't have iron ... a spacecraft 
on a comet commemorated these events; the spacecraft is named Rosetta. [DOC] [TLE] The largest stones of all time - Ancient-Wisdom [PAR] The top-50 megaliths, menhirs, obelisks and cut-stones of all time. ... These two 
giants were built from a single piece of stone each. .... Pyramid at Abu Sir 
included 8 monolithic granite columns with leafs on their capitals. ... is that over a 
portion 2.6 meters long they taper from 91.2 cm to 79.8 cm with the error from the 
mean... [DOC] [TLE] obelisk - The Master's Table [PAR] An obelisk is a monolithic stone monument whose four sides, which generally 
carry inscriptions, gently taper into a pyramidion at the top. The ancient Egyptians 
usually erected them in pairs and associated them ... shows how these 
monuments, some more than 32 m (105 ft) long, were cut as single pieces of red 
granite. [DOC] [TLE] Forbidden History - 05 [PAR] Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids and Secrets of the Soil, have done little to ...... 
But at some indefinable point, long-suffering Nature rebelled. .... Could the 
ancient Egyptians have built the Great Pyramid? ...... A taper from top to bottom. 
.... In cutting these giant monoliths, the builders evidently found it necessary to 
craft the... [DOC] [TLE] The Mystery Of The Obelisk - Let's Roll Forums [PAR] An obelisk is a monolithic stone monument whose four sides, which generally 
carry inscriptions, gently taper into a pyramidion at the top. ... Aswan shows how 
these monuments, some more than 32 m (105 ft) long, were cut as ... The Obelisk 
you see below was brought from Egypt and erected at the Vatican. [DOC] [TLE] The Great Sphinx: What We Know, What We Think We ... - Em Hotep [PAR] Oct 24, 2009 ... Most of the sphinxes in Egypt are statues with the body of a lion and the head of a 
... Thus, as the future queen her sphinx may have been constructed prior to ... At 
an impressive 26 feet long and 13 feet high, the Alabaster Sphinx is .... and there 
are indentations in the floor before these columns that suggest... [DOC] [TLE] Journal of the Society for Arts, Vol. 7, no. 340 - JStor [PAR] their practice the same principle of entasis in the long transverse lines ... The 
sides of these columns of the Parthenon are not straight lines ... All

Question: It was long a mystery how Egyptians cut & erected these tapering monolithic pointed pillars
Answer: obelisks