A special lump of granite

Overnight, the snow has largely disappeared, leaving behind a sea of slush and grit, and the landscape is bleak and grey. So, best to turn to memories of blue skies and baking sun - thus, I bring you, a small lump of pink granite. This is, however, no ordinary pink granite from Aberdeenshire, where we have tons of the stuff. No, it is a well travelled piece of rose granite from Egypt. Once part of the lower outer layers of the pyramid of Menkaure on the Giza Plateau, it had been quarried at Aswan, 930 km up the Nile, and somehow floated down to Giza around 4,500 years ago. Truly, a well travelled stone!