Timnah
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.F. Graf Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.F. Graf Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 24, 2024 04:02 PM
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History
The Timna Valley is located approximately 30 km north of the Gulf of Aqaba and copper has been mined there since the fifth millennium B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746825
29.7625105, 34.978762
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19539 (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- Less than certain: OSM location of Copper extraction facility 39b (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Hathor Temple, Timna Valley located at Timnah (unspecified date range)
- Slaves' Hill (Timna Valley) located at Timnah (unspecified date range)
valley, mine
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 76 F2 Timnah
The Barrington Atlas notes material(s): Cu. The Timna Valley was submitted for consideration as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 and remains on the 'tentative' list.
D.F. Graf, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Timnah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746825> [accessed: 27 December 2024]
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