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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Goddess Of Turquoise
This is an article on the recent "misplacing" of a statue of the Goddess Hathor from a temple at Serabit Al-Khadim. The missing statue turned out to be hidden in the turquoise mines by locals in a tribal argument....
Egypt
Serabit Al-Khadem
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/819/tr401.htm
A 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 in Sinai. Around 8,000 years ago they started mining near-surface turquoise and copper. By 3500 BC, the goliath turquoise vein of Serabit Al-Khadem was discovered and for more than 2,000 years the early Pharaohs of newly united Egypt conducted a fairly systematic operation. Turquoise was extracted from the high mountainous mines, carried down through Wadi Matalla till it reached the garrison port of Al-Markha, near today's Abu Zenima. From there it was loaded onto ships bound for mainland Egypt. The bluish green turquoise served a number of purposes, from carving scarabs to using its powder as a colouring paint. Dedicated to Hathor, the patron goddess of copper and turquoise miners, her temple is located 1,100m above sea level. It was first built during the reign of Pharaoh Sesostris I of the Middle Kingdom."
See the above for the rest of the piece.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Goddess Of Turquoise
This is an article on the recent "misplacing" of a statue of the Goddess Hathor from a temple at Serabit Al-Khadim. The missing statue turned out to be hidden in the turquoise mines by locals in a tribal argument....