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These are the bits and pieces of one of the
largest sculptures ever created on the...

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That is a finger.

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This is the kneecap.

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There you see the feet.

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And there you see the torso.

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The weight of the sculpture is estimated as
having been 1,000 tons when it was in one

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piece.

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The quarry is 200 kilometers away.

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And so the block from which it was carved
would have to have been at least 1,200 or

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1,400 tons.

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The question is, was it carved in place in
Aswan and moved here?

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Or was the block moved here and then carved?

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And we are reasonably far from the Nile, so
how was it transported 200 kilometers?

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So there are his toes.

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And here is a smaller statue next to it.

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And the next step is to actually climb up on
top.

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So this is the biggest pedestal in the whole
quarry.

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And this is, in my opinion, weighing around
500 tons.

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One solid piece of granite, rose granite.

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You see 500 ton base on which possibly a
1,000 ton sculpture rested.

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Here are his toes.

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The only thing was done in that time.

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There were so many things in other places.

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So we need 5,000 there, 5,000 here, 5,000
there.

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So the whole nation will be busy just pushing
and dragging the stones, which is not...

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But pushing and dragging is one thing, then
lifting is another.

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So this is the Colossi of Memnon, one and
two.

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And Tony is here in front to give us a sense
of scale.

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The material used to make these is quartzite,
which is very hard.

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The term quartz should give you an indication
of the hardness of it.

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And the stone came from Cairo, which is 400
miles away.

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They are conservatively estimated at weighing
1,000 tons apiece.

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And what's most intriguing is the fact that
with this one, you see it's made of multiple

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pieces.

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But this one, even though it has many cracks
in it, etc., it appears to my eye that this

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is a solid piece of stone on a huge base.

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So if the stone was brought from 400 miles
away, and it's quartzite, which has the...

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at least that of granite, how did they move
it here and how did they carve it?

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Because the dynastic Egyptians were a Bronze
Age culture.

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They did not have steel or iron or diamond
equipment.

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It is possible that this is a remnant of an
older culture called the Chameisians.