They each contain 40 cubic yards, and weigh about 65 tons.

Ordinarily, however, the blocks are not much larger than those now used in Europe.

They measure, that is to say, about 2-1/2 to 4 feet in height, from 3 to 8 feet in length, and from 2 to 6 feet in thickness.
Some temples are built of only one kind of stone; but more frequently materials of different kinds are put together in unequal proportions.

Thus the main part of the temples of Abydos consists of very fine limestone; but in the temple of Seti I., the columns, architraves, jambs, and lintels,-- all parts, in short, where it might be feared that the limestone would not offer sufficient resistance,--the architect has had recourse to sandstone; while in that of Rameses II., sandstone, granite, and alabaster were used.
At Karnak, Luxor, Tanis, and Memphis, similar combinations may be seen.

At the Ramesseum, and in some of the Nubian temples, the columns stand on massive supports of crude brick.