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Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried - Know More
1 Dec 2006 , The reaction would be inexplicable if the stones were quarried, but , I m not keen on Roman/Egyptian history but I think that the Egyptian , the early Roman Empire conquered and absorbed Ptolemaic Egypt as a state...
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The Gebel el Silsila Survey Project Two Seasons American , - Know More
Series of Roman quarry marks - graffiti in the main quarry , or symbols related with Graeco-Egyptian deities and some with apotropaic significance , aiming to complete the documentation of the Ptolemaic and Roman quarries, to move on....
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ASMOSIA VII, Lab of Archaeometry, NCSR Demokritos Greece - Know More
A GRANODIORITE QUARRY OF PTOLEMAIC-ROMAN AGE IN WADI ABU , to the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom, and the Ptolemaic and Roman periods...
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Writing in Egypt under Greek and Roman Rule - Know More
18 Dec 1995 , The Ptolemies were of Greek-Macedonian descent, just like Alexander the Great The Roman period, sometimes divided into a Roman and a....
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Wadi Hammamat Egyptian Monuments - Know More
14 Sep 2010 , The bekhen quarry on the northern side of the road still contains , also many demotic or Greek texts from the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods...
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The Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes of Egypt Proposal for a New , - Know More
Ancient Quarries and World Heritage Sites in Egypt Few, if any, regions of the , Pt=Ptolemaic period 332-30 BCE R=Roman period 30 BCE-395 CE 2...
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Colin Adams, Land Transport in Roman Egypt A Study of , - Know More
3 Apr 2009 , Colin Adams, Land Transport in Roman Egypt , Though this was not a Roman invention -- requisition was common during the Ptolemaic period-, the , the provisioning of quarries and the supply of soldiers and officials...
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Mines and Quarries of Ancient Egypt An Introduction - Know More
It was mined as early as the Ptolemaic period The Romans later referred to emeralds as Smaragdus, and named the Sikait region Mons Smaragdus, or Emerald....
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Bir Umm Fawakhir Insights into Ancient Egyptian Mining - Know More
Some evidence of activity at Bir Umm Fawakhir in earlier Roman, Ptolemaic, and , The granite was quarried to no great extent in the Roman period, but it also....
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Survey at Philadelphia Egypt - Know More
Archaeological Survey at Philadelphia, Fayyum Egypt , the urban centre down to a limestone quarry inside the desert hills bordering , Monson 2013 A Monson, Greeks in an Egyptian Landscape the Faiyum under Ptolemaic and Roman....
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Mons Claudianus - Know More
Mons Claudianus was a Roman quarry in the eastern desert of Egypt It consisted of a garrison, a quarrying site, and civilian and workers quarters Granodiorite....
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Friends of Silsila Results Discoveries - Know More
Quarry stables and administrative building belonging to the period of Tiberius , west, belonging to the Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom and Ptolemaic-Roman...
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Maria Nilsson Department of Archaeology and Ancient History , - Know More
10 Jan 2015 , , primarily Ptolemaic and Roman quarry marks in Gebel el Silsila, Egypt In 2012 I was rewarded a post doctoral fellowship at Lund University,....
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Saudi Aramco World Via Porphyrites - Know More
It was quarried in Egypt under appallingly difficult conditions and carted to the , The Romans named the site Mons Porphyrites, or Porphyry Mountain, and the , to the Nile at Qena Kainopolis of the Ptolemaic era , where they were shipped....
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Hellenistic History and Culture - Know More
As a social historian of Greek and Roman Egypt, I nevertheless feel some concern , Ptolemaic papyri attest to state monopolization of the cultivation and , state control of the production of salt, and close supervision of quarries and min...
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Silsila travel guide - Know More
Silsila also spelt Silsileh and known as Gebel es-Silsila is an Egyptian , Of huge geological and Egyptological significance, the gorge and ancient quarries of , By the later Ptolemaic and Roman periods, tens of thousands of workers were....
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Characterization and Source of Sedimentary Rocks of the , - Know More
7 Jun 2011 , Wadi Hammamat and Gebel Ahmar quarries were the provenance areas of , Rocks of the Alexandria Lighthouse Archaeological Objects, Egypt , from the Ptolemaic period to the Roman period are located to the west of....
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New ways of looking at highly organised stone quarrying in Ancient , - Know More
20 May 2015 , Limestone and sandstone quarrying in Ancient Egypt tools, methods , the Graeco-Roman period and perhaps also earlier in the Late Period...