• DOI:10.1080/00438240701464905
Corpus ID: 53134735

The industrial landscape of the Northern Faiyum Desert as a World Heritage Site: modelling the ‘outstanding universal value’ of third millennium bc stone quarrying in Egypt

@article{Bloxam2007TheIL,
  title={The industrial landscape of the Northern Faiyum Desert as a World Heritage Site: modelling the ‘outstanding universal value’ of third millennium bc stone quarrying in Egypt},
  author={Elizabeth Bloxam and T. Heldal},
  journal={World Archaeology},
  year={2007},
  volume={39},
  pages={305 - 323}
}

Elizabeth Bloxam, T. Heldal

Published 2007

Geology, Geography

World Archaeology

Abstract The pyramids and temples of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (early-mid-third millennium bc) are testament to an epoch of global significance in the evolution of monumental stone architecture. The basalt quarries of Widan el-Faras and gypsum quarries of Umm es-Sawan, located in the Northern Faiyum Desert of Egypt, were key production sites in the foreground of this transformation to large-scale stone quarrying. Yet, the significance and value of these archaeological sites in shaping elements… CONTINUE READING

View on Taylor & Francis

nssp.unm.edu

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed