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Gold Mask of Tutankhamun
Image via Wikipedia Made of two beaten and burnished sheets of gold, Tutankhamun’s somewhat idealized likeness weighs 10.23 kg (22.5 pounds). The pharaoh’s mask portrays Tutankhamun wearing the royal nemes headdress, its stripes of opaque blue glass imitating precious lapis lazuli. The vulture Nekhbet and cobra Wadjet, divine symbols of dominion over... »
Gold could overcome tourism as Egypt’s number one revenue source
Since the end of the Ptolemaic rule in Egypt 2,000 years ago, mining had been nothing but an afterthought, but that appears to be changing in light of rich and vast deposits of minerals, most notably gold, in the Eastern desert near the Red Sea. The leading company charged with unearthing the valuable resource, says... »
Modern Egypt mines pharaohs’ gold
A mine known to the pharaohs has re-entered service as modern Egypt’s only large gold producer. A papyrus map indicates that the Sukari gold deposit, in Egypt’s eastern desert near the Red Sea, was mined during the time of the pharaohs more than 2,000 years ago. Later, the Romans mined gold there, literally scratching the... »
Exhibition: Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C
Image via Wikipedia The Metropolitan Museum of Art has assembled another spectacular examination of Middle Eastern history, this one filled with some 350 objects made of gold, silver, lapis lazuli and other precious materials, including a haul of 3,400-year-old luxury goods found in the wreck of the oldest seagoing vessel ever discovered on the bottom... »
