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Location: Karnak, Egypt Height: 29.56 meter Weight: 323 ton Red granite Around 1500 B.C., Queen Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty, daughter of Tuthmosis I, erected a pair of obelisks to the east of those of her father in the area behind the Fourth Pylon at the Temple of Karnak in Thebes. One of the obelisks still stands there as well as the lower part of the one erected at the same time, still resting upon its base. The top of this broken obelisk with its pyramidion now lies near the Sacred Lake at Karnak.
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