Recording of Dr. Carol Meyer’s presenation “Bir Umm Fawakhir, a Byzantine period gold mining town in the Eastern Desert of Egypt” is now available on the PCMA UW YouTube channel.
It was another PCMA Seminar delving into the subject of the exploitation of natural resources in the Eastern Desert in antiquity. This time, the topic was the functioning of the settlement and the customs of the inhabitants of the Byzantine Bir Umm Fawakhir. This site, explored between 1992 and 2000, is one of the better recognized gold mining centers in eastern Egypt (read the abstract).
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