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The Turin mining papyrus depicts mines in the Wadi Hammamat and is the oldest known map of its kind. Mining in Egypt has had a long history that dates back to predynastic times. Active mining began in Egypt around 3000 BCE. Egypt has substantial mineral resources, including 48 million tons of tantalite (fourth largest in the world), 50 million ...
Emeralds in antiquity were mined in Ancient Egypt at locations on Mount Smaragdus since 1500 BC, and India and Austria since at least the 14th century AD. [20] The Egyptian mines were exploited on an industrial scale by the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and later by Islamic conquerors. Mining in Egypt ceased with the discovery of the Colombian ...
Judith Bunbury. Judith Mervyn Richardson-Bunbury, known professionally as Judith Bunbury, is a British geoarchaeologist. Bunbury was the senior tutor at St Edmund's College, Cambridge until 2023. Her work has characterised the movement of the river across the Nile valley over the last 10,000 years, and its impact on Egyptian civilisation. [2][3]
Emerald is a cyclosilicate. Emeralds in antiquity were mined in Egypt at locations on Mount Smaragdus since 1500 BCE, and India, and Austria since at least the 14th century CE. [3] The Egyptian mines were exploited on an industrial scale by the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and later by Islamic conquerors.
Wadi Allaqi is the major dry river in the southeastern part of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, draining the area from the hills near the Red Sea to the valley of the Nile. With a length of 250 km (160 mi), the wadi is used by the nomadic Bejas who live in the area – about 1,000 members of the Ababda and Bisharyn [2] tribes as of 2003 – to ...
Ptolemaic Kingdom to Byzantine Empire. Berenice Troglodytica, also called Berenike (Greek: Βερενίκη) or Baranis, is an ancient seaport of Egypt on the western shore of the Red Sea. It is situated about 825 km south of Suez, 260 km east of Aswan in Upper Egypt and 140 km south of Marsa Alam. [2]
The nomadic Arab tribes, of which the largest were the Mudhar, Rabi'ah, Juhaynah and Qays 'Aylan, [3] moved to the region after the discovery of gold and emerald mines there. [2] The Banu Kanz originated from the Banu Hanifa, who moved to Egypt from Arabia during the reign of Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil, between 847 and 861 CE. [4]
Wadi el-Hudi is a mining region that includes a large wadi and a mountain named Gebel el-Hudi in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, Southeast of Aswan. [1][2] The name hudi is thought to come from the Arabic word for guide. [3][4] Wadi el-Hudi is geologically rich and has been the basis of considerable mining and study since Ancient times.