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Gold Production Sites and Gold Mining in Nubia/Sudan

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Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia

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Contrary to the above discussion on the gold producing sites in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, for which we were able to follow a rough sequence from N to S, this is presently no longer the case for the sites in Sudan’s North-Eastern Desert (Nubia) or its hills along the Red Sea. The sites are therefore hereafter grouped according to either geographic or geologic sectors, within each of which, however, the same sequence from N to S is maintained (Fig. 6.1)

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  1. Institute of Egyptology Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

    Rosemarie Klemm

  2. Dept. of Earth- and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

    Dietrich Klemm

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Klemm, R., Klemm, D. (2013). Gold Production Sites and Gold Mining in Nubia/Sudan. In: Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22508-6_6

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