Ben van Kerkwyk
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
A thousand kilometers.
And it would have been, it was a single piece granite statue, easily a thousand tons.
Show that image, Jamie, if you would, please.
I think it's giant objects in there or something.
There's, I mean, and this is Tannis in the Delta, Aspon down here at the quarry.
I mean, downstream on the Nile, there's another example, the one at Karnak, that's the whole shoulder and arm of a composite quartzite.
The size of the Statue of Liberty, basically.
A single-piece granite solid statue.
I mean, there's all these pieces.
Nah, it's only 200 tons.
I mean, it's 250 maybe.
It's not... You have them 10 times almost that size.
The crazy thing is also how beautiful it is.
Like, how symmetrical it is.
And you can still feel, like this is one of the signs, I think, when you get to the finishing on some of these statues.
That's a giant kneecap.