By Rosemarie Klemm, Dietrich Klemm
The publication offers the ancient evolution of gold mining actions within the Egyptian and Nubian barren region (Sudan) from approximately 4000 BC until eventually the Early Islamic interval (~800–1350 AD), subdivided into the most classical epochs together with the Early Dynastic – previous and center Kingdoms – New state (including Kushitic) – Ptolemaic – Roman and Early Islamic. it truly is illustrated with many informative color photographs, maps and drawings. an up-to-the-minute entire geological advent supplies a basic review at the gold construction zones within the japanese wasteland of Egypt and northerly (Nubian) Sudan, together with many of the formation strategies of the gold bearing quartz veins mined in those old sessions. The greater than 250 gold construction websites provided, are defined either, from their archaeological (as a ways as floor stock is worried) and geological environmental stipulations, leading to an evolution scheme of prospection and mining tools in the major sessions of mining actions. The e-book bargains for the 1st time an entire catalogue of the various gold construction websites in Egypt and Nubia below geological and archaeological facets. It presents information regarding the significance of gold for the Pharaohs and the miraculous gold rush in Early Arab occasions.
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Stern (1979, 1981), El-Gaby et al. (1984, 1988, 1990) and Hassan and Hashad (1990) 35 describe them as “younger metavolcanics” as opposed to the basaltic “older metavolcanics”. The younger series consist largely of andesite lava, but also of basalts and dacites-rhyolites, as well as volcanoclastics (Hassan and Hashad 1990). Such volcanics are commonly compared with today’s island arc volcanics (Stern 1979, 1981). Further up the stratigraphic sequence in the Egyptian Eastern Desert are the partially massive Hammamat sediments.
Equivalent to the Egyptian Eastern Desert, they exhibit affinities with island arc characteristics. Compared to the Egyptian Eastern Desert where determination of the individual terranes is encumbered by intensive shearing and overthrust of the Pan-African orogeny (except the southeastern Gerf-terranes; Fig. 3), Northern Sudan seems considerably less affected by compressional tectonics. Thus, the separation between the western Gabgaba and the eastern Gebeit-terrane by the so-called Hamisana suture is therefore much more convincing (Fig.
Klemm, D. 1007/978-3-642-22508-6_2, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 21 22 2 Value of Gold in Ancient Egypt Fig. 1 Representation of a golden, bead-studded pectoral. The three-dot determinative for minerals below, denotes the sign as the hieroglyph for gold with the reading “nub” (after N. M. Davies, 1958) same administration was also in charge of delivering, counting, and weighing the recovered gold as well as recording these actions in written documents. As a rule the delivered gold was kept in treasuries attached to the kingdom’s most influential temples.