Egypt
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
- Sinai's Turquoise Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly A comprehensive restoration and documentation scheme is underway at a major temple and mine complex in Sinai, as Nevine El-Aref reports From pre-dynastic times, early Egyptians made their way to the Sinai Peninsula over land or across...
- 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...
- 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
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
- Sinai's Turquoise Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly A comprehensive restoration and documentation scheme is underway at a major temple and mine complex in Sinai, as Nevine El-Aref reports From pre-dynastic times, early Egyptians made their way to the Sinai Peninsula over land or across...
- 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...
- 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....