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  • Gebel el-Silsila

    Gebel el-Silsila or Gebel Silsileh is an archaeological site located north of Aswan in Upper Egypt, where the cliffs on both sides close to the narrowest point along the length of the entire Nile. The site provided numerous stone quarries on both the west and east sides of the Nile. The site contains many shrines erected by officials who would have been in charge of quarrying the stone. Almost all of Ancient Egypt's great temples derived their sandstone from here.
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    Gebel el-Silsila
    by Olaf Tausch, GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Gebel el-Silsila
    by Olaf Tausch, GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Gebel el-Silsila
    by Olaf Tausch, GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 119 m

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    Gebel el-Silsila

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    Location

    Egypt

    Aswan Governorate

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    Second Millennium BC

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ptolemaic + Roman

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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