Egyptian bowling was extremely popular all over the Nile valley. Menes made bowling the national past time in around 3100 BC. But the bowling pins were made from limestone and quit fragile. So teams of labors quarries millions of blocks to facilitate the the growing need for more pins.

The pharaoh Userkaf sucked at bowing and band it across all of Egypt. When asked what to do with all the pin blanks that were quarried...he replied, "Stack them at Saqqara."