Quarry workings at Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert, Egypt, North Africa


Wadi Hammamat known for its greywacke quarry has hundreds of inscriptions mostly dating from the pharaonic period. On the road from El-Quseir to Qift in the Red Sea Mountains


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