Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm (Fatma Keshk)
A feature story on Serabit el-Kadim in Sinai, with photos.
- The Miners' Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) As world attention was focussed on a gold and copper mine in Chile, it emerged that there may have been a failed bid to steal one of the remaining sandstone statues of the goddess Hathor, the ancient Egyptian protector...
- Who Really Invented The Alphabet
Biblical Archaeological Review In a landmark article in the March/April 2010 issue of BAR, Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed,...
- Serabit Al-khadem
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/819/tr401.htmA short and somewhat dubious article from Al Ahram (since when was Serabit Al-Khadem in both the Nile Valley and Sinai at one and the same time?). But here it is anyway: "Miners were the very first settlers...
- Save Central Sinai
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/hr1.htm "The Supreme Council of Antiquities has launched an LE10 million project to upgrade the temple of Serabit Al-Khadem and the nearby turquoise mines in Sinai for what is loosely called "safari tourism". The vagueness...
- Sarabit El-khadem Opens
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5059 "Sarabit el-Khadem, the only ancient Egyptian temple in Sinai, is scheduled to appear on tourist itineraries in the coming months. The temple, southeast of Abu Zneima city in South Sinai, was recently...
Egypt
Feature on Serabit el-Kadim turquiose mines
Al Masry Al Youm (Fatma Keshk)
A feature story on Serabit el-Kadim in Sinai, with photos.
"His majesty of this God has sent the God's treasurer, the assistant and leader of the troupe, Her-Wer-Re, to the mining lands and he said: there is abundant turquoise in the hill."
With these words, Chief Her-Wer-Re began documenting the work of his mining expedition sent by the pharaoh (his majesty of this God) to Serabit al-Khadem in South Sinai during the Middle Kingdom Period (ca. 2055-1985 BC). In the inscriptions on his stele at the mine, he boasts of the success of his expedition despite rumors that turquoise ore might be lacking at that particular time of year: "My expedition returned complete in its entirety … I broke off in the first month of summer, bringing my precious stone … I accomplished my work with great success without a voice being raised against my work, which I have done excellently."
Rock inscriptions left by ancient Egyptian miners in South Sinai are rich with details of working conditions and weather, as well as praise for the pharaoh and the gods. They present a lively narrative of daily life that can be easily compared to modern business reports, or even a diary.
- The Miners' Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) As world attention was focussed on a gold and copper mine in Chile, it emerged that there may have been a failed bid to steal one of the remaining sandstone statues of the goddess Hathor, the ancient Egyptian protector...
- Who Really Invented The Alphabet
Biblical Archaeological Review In a landmark article in the March/April 2010 issue of BAR, Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed,...
- Serabit Al-khadem
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/819/tr401.htmA short and somewhat dubious article from Al Ahram (since when was Serabit Al-Khadem in both the Nile Valley and Sinai at one and the same time?). But here it is anyway: "Miners were the very first settlers...
- Save Central Sinai
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/hr1.htm "The Supreme Council of Antiquities has launched an LE10 million project to upgrade the temple of Serabit Al-Khadem and the nearby turquoise mines in Sinai for what is loosely called "safari tourism". The vagueness...
- Sarabit El-khadem Opens
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5059 "Sarabit el-Khadem, the only ancient Egyptian temple in Sinai, is scheduled to appear on tourist itineraries in the coming months. The temple, southeast of Abu Zneima city in South Sinai, was recently...