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  2. Stone quarries of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Great amounts of granite were quarried from Aswan at an extent only comparable to ancient Egypt's limestone and sandstone quarries. [13] The quarry sites were active in the Old Kingdom through the Late Period, and continued to be active in the Greco-Roman period of Egypt. [1] In the present days, the quarry area is to become an open-air museum ...

  3. Granite - Wikipedia

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    Granite dimension stone quarry in Taivassalo, Finland. Granite and related marble industries are considered one of the oldest industries in the world, existing as far back as Ancient Egypt. [62] Major modern exporters of granite include China, India, Italy, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Spain and the United States. [63]

  4. Merneptah Stele - Wikipedia

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    The Merneptah Stele was discovered in Thebes and is currently housed in Cairo, Egypt. The Merneptah Stele, also known as the Israel Stele or the Victory Stele of Merneptah, is an inscription by Merneptah, a pharaoh in ancient Egypt who reigned from 1213 to 1203 BCE. Discovered by Flinders Petrie at Thebes in 1896, it is now housed at the ...

  5. Ancient Egyptian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian architecture. Spanning over three thousand years, ancient Egypt was not one stable civilization but in constant change and upheaval, commonly split into periods by historians. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, but a set of styles differing over time but with some commonalities.

  6. Sabu disk - Wikipedia

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    The Sabu disk is an ancient Egyptian artifact from the First Dynasty, c. 3000 to 2800 BC. It was found in 1936 in the north of the Saqqara necropolis in mastaba S3111, the grave of the ancient Egyptian official Sabu after whom it is named. The function and meaning of the carefully crafted natural stone vessel are unclear.

  7. Pyramidion - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian Museum, Cairo. A pyramidion (plural: pyramidia) is the capstone of an Egyptian pyramid or the upper section of an obelisk. [ 1 ] Speakers of the Ancient Egyptian language referred to pyramidia as benbenet [ 2 ] and associated the pyramid as a whole with the sacred benben stone. [ 3 ]

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