Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Okay re watched the video ... Merer's boat
> carried 70 tons and if average uncut block weight
> was about 3 tones (finished was 2.5 tons) then we
> can say he carried about 20 to 25 blocks per
> trip. Still awfully slow going ... Not too sure
> how many limestone facing blocks were used but it
> still seems awfully slow and getting the granite
> blocks there would have been another challenge.

But one they were used to.

And they waited for the season when the Nile would be at a higher level so that their heavily laden boat could successfully negotiate the river.

> Meanwhile a 1000 years later they were
> transporting 1000 ton blocks ... or so they say
> ...
>
> Workers of Tuthmosis III. (1,486-1,425 B.C.)
> were able to erect a 187 feet long obelisk, a
> large monument made from one block, with an
> estimated weight of over 1,000 tons.

The article (whose source you omitted) includes no reference.

Did it mean the Lateran Obelisk? [en.wikipedia.org]. This was Tuthmosis' " tekhen waty, or "unique obelisk."" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thutmose_III#Artistic_developments)

There is a description in Ammianus Marcellinus of how the Lateran Obelisk was moved in the Roman era.

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