Great Columns

>Great Columns These two columns, each about 100 feet tall, are believed to date to the 1st or 2nd dynasty. They were supposedly built to commemorate the place where two angels touched their feet to the earth. One column is of brick, and the other is stone. A narrow exterior stair winds to the top of each, but the one on the brick pillar is crumbling and considered unsafe to climb. The tops of the pillars are now weathered and nondescript, but locals claim they once held altars to the angels (or whatever type of beings they were), or possibly to Thoth.