On the outskirts of the city for a long time there was mining of granite for numerous facilities, sarcophagi, statues, obelisks and columns. Until now preserved ancient career extracted from huge granite blocks. Visitors can trace the entire process of production of these blocks and the stage of their initial processing.

In one of the quarries is the unfinished obelisk. According to some sources, he ordered the queen Hatshepsut. The length of the obelisk - 42 meters, and weight - more than a thousand tons. Working with him were terminated as at the top of a deep crack formed. So he lies with the times ...