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Mining in Egypt
Egypt is rich in building and decorative stone, copper and lead ores, gold and gemstones. These natural resources, the ancient Egyptians monuments, sculpt statues build tools and fashion jewelry. Embalmers used salts from the Wadi Natrun for mummification, which also need to harness the gypsum plaster. Ore-bearing rocks were found in distant, inhospitable wadis in the Eastern Desert and Sinai, the large, state-controlled expeditions to natural resources obtaining found there.
The ancient Egyptians used oxen and donkeys as pack animals, and they were responsible for plowing the fields and trampling seed into the soil. The slaughter of a fatted ox was also a central part of a ritual sacrifice. Horses were introduced by the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate Period, and the camel, although known from the New Empire, was not used as a beast of burden to the Late Period. There is also evidence that elephants were used briefly in the Late Period, but largely abandoned due to lack to pasture to suggest.
There were extensive gold mines in Nubia, and one of the first known maps of a gold mine in this region. The Wadi Hammamat was a significant source of granite, greywacke, and gold. Flint was the first mineral collected and used to make tools, and flint handaxes are the earliest evidence of habitation in the Nile Valley. Nodules of the mineral were carefully flaked to knives and arrowheads of moderate hardness and durability to make, even after copper was adopted for this purpose.
The Egyptians worked deposits of lead ore Galena at Gebel Rosas to the net sinkers, plumb bobs to make, and small figurines. Copper was the main metal for mechanical engineering in ancient Egypt and was melted in furnaces from malachite ore in the Sinai. Employees collected gold by washing the nuggets in alluvial deposits of sediment, or by the more labor-intensive process the grinding and washing gold-bearing quartzite. Iron deposits found in Upper Egypt were used in the Late Period.
From high-quality bricks were abundant in Egypt, The ancient Egyptians along the Nile Valley limestone, granite from Aswan, and basalt and sandstone from the wadis of the eastern desert. Deposits of decorative stones such as porphyry, greywacke, alabaster, and carnelian dotted the eastern desert and were collected even before the First Dynasty. In the Ptolemaic and Roman times, miners worked deposits of emeralds in Wadi Sikait and amethyst in Wadi el-Hudi.
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