 How do you get it so precisely placed on the pedestal? They never left the record, so it's one of those mysteries. But obelisks are just fabulous. There were once more than 100 in Egypt. Now there's hardly any. Now, what was the purpose for them of the obelisk? Obelisks almost always came in pairs. When you had one, you had two. The pharaoh would quarry two obelisks, and he would put them in front of the temple entrance.