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From: Savant2/9/2026 3:51:02 PM
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Egypt has quarry cuts that look machine made

In the Aswan granite quarry sits the Unfinished Obelisk, a single block that would have weighed over 1100 tons if fully extracted. But the real mystery is not the size, it is the strange scoop marks and tool signatures carved into the granite walls and trenches. The official explanation blames pounding stones, yet the marks appear too consistent, too aligned, and sometimes even reach into undercuts where that method makes no sense. If these quarry signatures are real, then Egypt's stone cutting story is missing a major piece
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