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Hammamat became the major route from Thebes to the Red Sea and then to the Silk Road that led to Asia, or to Arabia and the horn of Africa. This 200 km journey was the most direct route from the Nile to the Red Sea, as the Nile bends toward the coast at the western end of the wadi.
Egypt's exports to Indonesia, on the other hand, have reached $94.4 million in 2013 and included minerals, cement and fruits among others. [10] On 17 December 2024, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto began a working trip to Egypt. [11] He attended the D-8 Summit [12] and held a bilateral meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. [13]
Wadi Hammamat was the primary trade route linking Egypt to the Red Sea since Pre-Dynastic times. [10] Uruk civilization was transmitted to Egypt along this corridor. It is the likely that Thinis, the capital of the First Dynasty, was located in the same region as Thebes for this reason. Both cities were at a crossroad region in Upper Egypt ...
Doryphoros torso (Uffizi). Basanite from the Wadi Hammamat quarry. Wadi Hammamat is a quarrying area located in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. This site is noted because it is described in the first ancient topographic map known, the Turin Papyrus Map, describing a quarrying expedition prepared for Ramesses IV.
Bahasa Indonesia; Italiano; ... In Wadi Hammamat, a rock inscription (Hammamat M 191) ... Pharaoh of Egypt Eleventh Dynasty 1998 BC – 1991 BC
To acquire resources for the building program, Amenemhat III exploited the quarries of Egypt and the Sinai for turquoise and copper. Other exploited sites includes the schist quarries at Wadi Hammamat, amethyst from Wadi el-Hudi, fine limestone from Tura, alabaster from Hatnub, red granite from Aswan, and diorite from Nubia.
It has never been discovered and is known only from a cliff-face inscription at Wadi Hammamat in the Eastern Desert, where there were several quarries in Pharaonic times. The name of the pyramid, Baw-Iti ("the power of Ity"), may be a direct reference to the name of the pyramid of Neferefre , Netjeri-baw-Ra-nefer-ef ("the power of Neferefre is ...
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