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Ramses the Great's Nubian Gold Mines: Wealth of Egypt
Episode 26 of Ramses the Great: Egypt's Most Powerful Pharaoh steps away from the pharaoh's sons, wives, and temples to plunge into the economic engine that made it all possible: Nubian gold. Lucas guides us through the desolate Eastern Desert to the gold mines of Wadi Hammamat, the Wadi Allaqi, and the emerald mines of Sikait. We meet the enslaved Nubians and Egyptian convicts who dug the quartz, the archers who guarded them, and the foremen who tracked output on ostraca. We explore how Ramses II claimed the gold of Kush as his divine right, how the precious metal flowed north to…
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