Unfinished giant stele in Yangshan Quarry

The stele, quarried 600 years ago by the orders of the Yongle Emperor in the Yangshan Quarry east of Nanjing, would have stood 73 m tall if it had been possible to move and install it. But since it wasn t, it s still sitting in its are two separate pieces, visible in this video: the stele crown (in front) and the stele body (lying horizontally, in the background). The stele base is in a nearby pit some 100 m away, not seen in this more details about the site, and lit