Mons Porphyrites (today Jabal Abu Dukhkhan) is the mountainous site of a group of ancient quarries in the Red Sea Hills of the Eastern Desert in Egypt...

emperor. The red porphyry all came from the Gabal Abu Dukhan quarry (or Mons Porphyrites) in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, from 600 million-year-old andesite...

primary (low grade) ore deposit of copper, consisting of porphyry rocks Mons Porphyrites, the only porphyry quarry worked in the ancient world for the emperor's...

Quarrying in the Eastern Desert with Particular Reference to Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites", in Mattingly, David J.; Salmon, John (eds.), Economies...

imperial stone quarry known as Mons Porphyrites, which is the world's only known source of purple porphyry. The excavation of Mons Claudianus by the Romans...

desert by the Wádee Tarfa, joins the roads to the quarries of the Mons Porphyrites. At the beginning of the 19th century, when Napoleonic surveys were...

apparent to the kingdoms of Spain. And Johannes Hevelius called it "Mons Porphyrites" after the mountains near Olbia, Egypt. A particular region of very...

the point where the limestone range of the Arabian hills joins the Mons Porphyrites, and at the southern entrance of the Gulf of Suez (the Heroopolite...

quarrying in the Eastern Desert with particular reference to Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites. In D. Mattingly and J. Salmon. Economies beyond Agriculture...

directing a survey of the quarry at Mons Claudianus and co-directing the survey and excavation of Mons Porphyrites. He also proved the location of the...

green lapis Lacedaemonius from Laconia, and imperial porphyry from Mons Porphyrites. Green Thessalicum was three times the price of grey-white marble from...

Cominius Leugas. The location of the site, known to the Romans as Mons Porphyrites, was lost for many centuries until rediscovered in the 19th century...

Quarrying in the Eastern Desert with Particular Reference to Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites", in Mattingly, David J.; Salmon, John (eds.), Economies...

the only porphyry quarry worked in the ancient world is in Egypt. Mons Porphyrites was quarried to supply the rare and expensive imperial porphyry for...

Marsa Shagra Masaid Matay Minuf Minya al-Qamb Mit Ghamr Monera Mons Claudianus Mons Porphyrites Mut Nadir Nafisha Nag Hammadi Nakhl Naqada Nuweiba Obour Port...

Invented the Wheel? And How Did They Do It?". Wired. Peacock, D. P. S. "Mons Porphyrites". In Kathryn A. Bard; Steven Blake Shubert (eds.). Encyclopedia of...

Quarrying in the Eastern Desert with Particular Reference to Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites", in Mattingly, David J.; Salmon, John (eds.), Economies...

which was probably named after its proximity to the Roman quarry of Mons Porphyrites that mined a rare stone by the same name. Pitirim continued the work...

der Veen has studied the food supply to Roman quarry sites Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites in the eastern desert of Egypt, which showed the wide range...