In the turquoise mines at Maghara - Mt. Sinai region

Two men working in separate niches of a turquoise mine.
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Photograph taken from Wadi El Maghara in the vicinity of its junction with Wadi Qenaia, showing an ancient Egyptian Turquoise mine. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
A cluster/network of copper mines and smelting settlements are located at the ancient and contemporary mining region of West-central Sinai, and date back to Chalcolithic/Copper and Early Bronze Age at Wadi Maghara (4,300-3,300 BCE), Gebel Samra (4,300-2,650 BCE), Wadi Kharig (4,300-2,925 BCE), Wadi Umm Graf (4,216-3,985 BCE), Naqb Budra (3,500-2925 BCE) and Wadi Sura (and Wadi Sarbut, BCE?). Ancient Egyptian dynastic mines are located at Wadi Maghara and Gebel A'deidiya 'Hgaga, Yahudia, Shab, Hadid, Umm Hasan and Safrh mines' (turquoise, 1st?-19th dynasties, 2,950-1,213 BCE), Wadi Umm Temeiyim (turquoise, 11th-14th dynasties, 1,945-1,640 BCE), Gebel Serabit El Khadem (turquoise, 11th-20th dynasties, 1,948-1,137 BCE), Wadi Nasib (copper, 12th-18th dynasties, 1,818-1,292 BCE), Wadi Kharig (copper: 2nd? dynasty, 2,775-2,650 BCE; 5th dynasty, 2,400 BCE; 12th-18th dynasties, 1,818-1,292 BCE), Gebel Musabb' Salama (ancient mines?), and Tell El Markha on the Gulf of Suez (copper smelting and sea anchorage, 18th dynasty, 1,479 BCE). Hamada (pre-Islamic), 'Aliqat (14th century CE) and Sawalha (14th century CE) tribes inhabit the mining region. The Bedouin shrine of Sheikh Suleiman Nafai' is located at the junction of Wadi Maghara and Wadi Sieh. Historically, Sinai's Bedouin culture has links to Sufism. The land is dotted with shrines - there are 85 mapped religious shrines across the Peninsula, in addition to many other unmapped ones - used by different Bedouin tribes as annual meeting places. This part of Bedouin culture connects members of the same tribe and different tribes together. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
No. U-122672.