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The largest one to be carved is still in the hill side as it was almost cut out and then discovered that a crack or fault was in the stone! It is 137 feet long or as tall as a 12 story building! If it had been completed, it would have been the largest piece of worked stone in history, weighing 1,320 tons. 

I am sure a lot of people were very unhappy. You can see where the workmen chipped the rock by hand using other stones and probably also fire as it has been found that by creating a very hot fire, the stone will flake, making it easier to chip the stone. 

What is hard to imagine is the ability to move a stone that might be eight or ten stories tall, get it on a boat and sail it hundreds of mile to Thebes, dress it until it is smooth as glass and set it up right without breaking it! 

Queen Hatshepsut had two obelisks cut, polished, moved and put in place within less than a year! Unbelievable!