Cast, Not Carved · source record · book

The Aswan Obelisk: With Some Remarks on the Ancient Engineering

Engelbach, R. · 1922

identifier / locator

Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, pp. 1–47

url

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59320/59320-h/59320-h.htm

verification note

Companion volume: Engelbach (1923), The Problem of the Obelisks, London: T. F. Unwin — the more commonly read expanded version, full text on Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg. Many later citations conflate the two.

reliability notes

• The foundational source of the pounding-stone orthodoxy.
• Methodologically thin by modern standards: one self-conducted 1-hour trial and heuristic workforce estimates.