Social life in ancient Egypt / by W.M. Flinders Petrie.

  • Flinders Petrie
Date:
1923
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Credit: Social life in ancient Egypt / by W.M. Flinders Petrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    foreheads of the miners. The rock was white quartz, which had to be broken up, pounded, and ground as fine as flour, after which the gold was separated by washing. In Sinai, turquoise, and malachite for copper and frit, were mined in sandstone. The mines are not deep, being lighted from outside, and they follow the strata containing the minerals. Very extensive alum mines are found in the north of Kharga oasis (B.E.O., 223). Salt was obtained from the Oases and from the Isthmus of Suez. A large amount of fortification was made in all ages in Egypt. There were boundary walls in the 1st dynasty, when a going round the wall,’5 or inspecting the frontiers, was the first duty that a new king undertook. In the Xllth dynasty, Sanehat, near Belbeys, “ reached the walls of the prince built to repel the Sati.” A wall remains in fair condition which was built at some unknown period to defend the cataract region from the tribes of the eastern desert. The oldest fortress which remains is that of the Ilnd dynasty at Abydos, known as the Shuneh. The main wall, 17 feet thick, is still 34 feet high. Up to 21 feet it seems to have been built all at once ; above that, stages of six courses were added at one time, perhaps yearly. The outside is 407 feet long and 210 feet wide.
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