Mons Porphyrites
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Mons Porphyrites is the mountainous site of a group of ancient quarries in the Red Sea Hills of the Eastern Desert in Egypt. Under the Roman Empire, they were the only known source of the purple "impe
Imperial porphyry mined from Mons Porphyrites
The stone quarries of ancient Egypt once produced quality stone for the building of tombs and temples and for decorative monuments such as sarcophagi, stelae, and statues. These quarries are now recog
Mons Porphyrites
…Mons Porphyrites (today Gebel Dokhan) is the mountainous site of a group of ancient quarries in the Red Sea Hills of the Eastern Desert in Egypt. Under the Roman Empire, they were the only known source of the purple "imperial" variety of porphyry…
Rock temples cut directly in the rocks at the Silsileh quarrying site, near Aswan
The Colossi of Memnon are two massive statues made from blocks of quartzite quarried from Gabel el Ahmar.
Depiction of a limestone quarry in Tura by Karl Richard Lepsius, a 19th century Prussian Egyptologist.
Baptismal font in the Cathedral of Magdeburg, Germany. The font is made of purple porphyry quarried from Gabal Abu Dukhan.