Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
- 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...
- Photo For Today By Francis Lankester
Serabit el Khadim, Sinai There's an article about the restoration and documentation of the site by Nevine el-Aref on the Al Ahram Weekly website from earlier in 2009 For more information about the site see the Serabit el Khadim page Su Bayfield's...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Turquoise Goddess
The Sinai peninsula has long been a resource to the Egyptians in search of turquoise and copper and the place the Egyptians left a temple. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/936/he1.htm...
Egypt
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 of miners. Nevine El-Aref accompanied the statues as they were transferred to a Sinai gallery for restoration.
Some few thousand years ago, ancient Egyptians made their way overland to the Sinai peninsula -- or travelled there across the Red Sea -- in search of minerals. Their chief targets were the turquoise and copper veins which had been mined in the Sinai mountains since time immemorial.
Once they had achieved mastery over Sinai, the Egyptian overseers set up a large and systematic mining operation at Serabit Al-Khadim in South Sinai, where they carved out great quantities of turquoise which was so highly valued that it became an important part of ritual symbolism in their religious ceremonies. Even today, pure, unveined turquoise is weight-for-weight more costly than gold.
- 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...
- Photo For Today By Francis Lankester
Serabit el Khadim, Sinai There's an article about the restoration and documentation of the site by Nevine el-Aref on the Al Ahram Weekly website from earlier in 2009 For more information about the site see the Serabit el Khadim page Su Bayfield's...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Turquoise Goddess
The Sinai peninsula has long been a resource to the Egyptians in search of turquoise and copper and the place the Egyptians left a temple. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/936/he1.htm...