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Credit: Authors New evidence of the importance of the Roman/Byzantine Mons Smaragdus settlement within the emerald mining network A new paper published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies presents the results of and images from the resuming of the archaeological seasons in the Mons Smaragdus region in the Egyptian Eastern Desert. The region is known for Roman-era emerald mines, chronicled by authors like Pliny the Elder and Claudius Ptolemy, were rediscovered in the 19th century by the French mineralogist Fréderic Cailliaud. During the 1990s a team from the Berenike Project started to survey the area and conducted the first excavations, focusing on the main site identified, Sikait, where the archaeological seasons resumed in January of 2018 and January 2020.

Eastern desertAl bar ala marWadi sikaitO achon casasJ oller guzmByzantine mons smaragdusNear eastern studiesMons smaragdusEgyptian easternClaudius ptolemyRoman egyptDils de la vegaEarth scienceGeology soilHydrology water resourcesTemperature dependent phenomena