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The Timna Valley (תִּמְנָע, Hebrew pronunciation: [timˈna (ʕ)]) is located in southern Israel in the southwestern Arava/Arabah, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the Gulf of Aqaba and the city of Eilat. The area is rich in copper ore and has been mined since the 5th millennium BCE.
Aug 12, 2018 · The Timna (תמנע) Valley, [3] located in the southern Aravah, on the western margin of the Dead Sea Rift Valley, holds one of the largest copper ore deposits in the southern Levant (second only to Wadi Faynan, located about 100 km to the north, in Jordan). The extensive archaeological study of Timna, which began over 50 years ago, has ...
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Oct 21, 2022 · For thousands of years the minerally rich Timna mines, in southern Israel, produces massive quantities of copper ore. Yet, in the early Iron Age, the ever-growing need for material to fuel the smelters led to an ecological collapse whose effects are still visible today.
Timnaʿ, copper-mining site, in the southern Negev, Israel, north of Elat. The presence of copper in Palestine is mentioned in the Bible, and archaeologists have identified remnants of ancient smelting operations at Timnaʿ, complete with crude furnaces and slag heaps, as being of the Egyptian pharaonic and Solomonic periods.
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The Timna Valley is located in the southwestern Arava, some 30 km. north of the Gulf of Eilat. It is a semi-circular, erosional formation of some 70 sq. km., opening in the east towards the Arava; on the north, west and south it is surrounded by cliffs, about 300 m. high. In the lower parts of these cliffs and on the slopes in front of them ...
Jan 15, 2023 · Timna sits 15 miles north of Eilat, a port city on the northern tip of the Red Sea. CTV operates within the breathtaking landscape of Timna Park and implements various techniques in excavation, survey, and organic and geological material sampling.
Apr 20, 2018 · The oldest copper mines in Timna National Park date back to 4500BC (Credit: Sara Toth Stub) Aside from mines like this, some flint tools and heaps of rock left from the smelting process, these ...
