Gold mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, from New Kingom to medieval times. New insight from the Samut district

Gold was plentiful in Egypt and had been used by the Pharaohs from the earliest times as a means of asserting their power. But the history and archaeology of the mining and production of Egyptian gold is a lot less known than the splendour of the country’s kings. Between 2013 and 2016, the French Ea...

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Main Authors: Bérangère Redon, Julie Marchand, Thomas Faucher
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Warsaw Press 2020-12-01
Series:Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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Online Access:http://pam-journal.pl/gicid/01.3001.0014.5039