Egypt has uncovered the remains of a 3,000-year-old mining camp at Jabal al-Sukkari, southwest of Marsa Alam, as part of the “Reviving the Ancient City of Gold” project. Conducted by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in collaboration with the Sukkari Mine administration, the project involved excavations, documentation, and the relocation of architectural elements to a safer site away from modern mining activities. The discovery includes remnants of an ancient gold extraction facility, where gold was processed from quartz veins using techniques such as crushing, grinding, filtration, sedimentation, and smelting in clay furnaces. This finding offers new insights into ancient Egyptian mining techniques, as well as the social, religious, and economic aspects of life in historical industrial settlements in the Eastern Desert.
Source: Egypt Today
