Historical Maps Maps Menu Nile to Nubia Israel Satelite Map of the Nile Delta Green lettering refers to Nubian Language groupings after Greenberg in B.G. Trigger, `The Classification of Meroitic: Geographical Considerations', p. 421ff.

Egypt's Emerald Region To learn more about the emerald mines of the eastern desert see Jean-Louis Rivard, Brandon C. Foster & Steven E. Sidebotham, `Emerald City' in Archaeology, May/Jun 2002, p. 36-41. Featuring a small map, an anciently painted portrait of a Roman woman wearing an emerald necklace and earrings. A color photo of old buildings at Sikait/Bendar el Kabir and a view of the Wadi, the condition of a sun disk with flanking cobras, and French made drawings of two temples of the time of Frederic Cailliaud from ca. 1817.

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