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Bir Umm Fawakhir 3 is the last of the final reports on the archaeological surveys and excavations at the Byzantine site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt; it remains the only intensively studied ancient Egyptian gold-mining operation, and one of very few completely mapped towns of the era. Along with other recent excavations …
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bir umm fawakhir in a sentence - Use bir umm fawakhir in a sentence and its meaning 1. Occupying groups from the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire used both the route and the mines, the Romans establishing toll stations, the Byzantines reopening New Kingdom and Ptolemaic mines at Bir Umm Fawakhir, and both building watch towers …
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The Bir Umm Fawakhir Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago carried out four seasons of archaeological survey at the site, in 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997; one season of excavation in 1999; and one study season in 2001. This volume is the final report on the 1996 and 1997 seasons. The goals of the 1996 and 1997 field ...
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Archaeological surveys at the site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt have clarified its role as a 5th–6th century gold-mining town. To date, 152 out of an estimated 216 buildings in the main settlement have been mapped in detail, eight outlying clusters of ruins have been identified, and four ancient mines have been inspected. In …
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The Oriental Institute continued its survey of Bir Umm Fawakhir, a site lying half way between the Nile and the Red Sea, with a short season in January 1993. Located close to the famous bekhen-stone quarries and graffiti of the Wadi Hammamat, the 1992 project took the form of a geological study of the area of Bir Umm Fawakhir.
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Bir Umm Fawakhir 1996 Season (larger scale; western area) graves located so far were simple clefts in the bedrock or cists built up of granite slabs, and all were thoroughly looted. Quarry 2, inspected but not plotted in 1993, has now been incorporated in the site map. Judging from a handful of Roman amphorae sherds, the type of wedge slots in the
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Figure 5. Bir Umm Fawakhir and Wadi el-Sid area, mines and outliers. Map by Mohamed Badr el-Din compared to major quarries such as that at Mons Claudianus, Quarry 1 is the larg est of the granite workings in the Bir Umm Fawakhir vi cinity. Some of the houses in Outlier 2 appear to stand to their original height of roughly two meters, and some
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Persou (Bir Umm Fawakhir) TM Geo 2837. Egypt - Eastern desert (Eastern desert) The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: Aegyptus The provincia ca. 200 AD - located in Wadi Hammamat (TM Geo 2839), near Wadi Fawakhir (TM Geo 54354), ca. 5 km east of Persou (I) (TM Geo 6520), along the road between U05 Koptos (Qift) (TM Geo 1159) and Myos …
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Archaeological surveys at the site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt have clarified its role as a 5th–6th century gold-mining town. To date, 152 out of an …
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The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago carried out an archaeological survey project in the Eastern Desert of Egypt at Bir Umm Fawakhir between January 11 and 23, 1992. The site lies about 5 km to the northeast of Wadi Hammamat, famous
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Bir Umm Fawakhir is a mountain hut in the Red Sea Governorate with the elevation of 388 m. Bir Umm Fawakhir is a mountain hut in the Red Sea Governorate with the elevation of 388 m. PeakVisor Explorer. Import Photo. Get PeakVisor App. Sign In. Search by GPS coordinates. Latitude Longitude.
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