This article details some of the most important ancient quarry sites in Egypt, listing material type and known monuments using sourced material when known. Quarry sites are listed by location from North to South.

Tura (Egyptian Arabic: طرة Tora IPA: [ˈtˤoɾˤɑ], Coptic: ⲧⲣⲱⲁ, Ancient Greek: Τρωια or Τρωη [1]) was the primary quarry for limestone in ancient Egypt. [2] The site, which was known by the ancient Egyptians as Troyu or Royu, is located about …

There are 128 known building-stone quarries of ancient Egypt, including 89 for limestone, 36 for sandstone, and three for gypsum, one of the latter also supplying anhydrite. Most of the quarries are still either largely or entirely intact.

Egypt’s oldest rocks date to the late Pre-cambrian and early Phanerozoic eons, approximately 500 to 2600 million years ago (Ma), with most forming during the Pan-African Orogeny of 500 to 1200 Ma (see Table 1 for the geologic time scale and the geologic ages of the quarry stones, and attached, fold-out map for the gen-eralized geology of Egypt a...

Stone quarries in ancient Egypt. Details about the stones used for the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giseh. The Giza quarries, the granite quarries in Assuan and the Tura limestone quarries. Maps and illustrations. How were the stones bevelled and the precise angle achieved?

Here are some explanations on the quarries used to extract materials for the construction of the Egyptian pyramids. Quarries of limestone, sandstone and granite are scattered all along the Nile, with a greater share near the south of the delta, on the Cairo side and in its southern part.

Survey of ancient Egyptian stone quarries (rock varieties and images, locations, and ages)

Quarries in Ancient Egypt. The two main stones of the lower Nile valley are sandstone, from Sudan as far north as the Edfu/Gebelein region, and limestone, the classic Egyptian valley stone from the Theban area to Cairo. Limestone is the typical building stone in the Old, Middle and early New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC). limestone

Jan 1, 2001 · Perhaps the best known quarries of ancient Egypt occur south of Aswan. They cover an area of about 4×5 km. Here, almost all varieties of granitoids used during the Pharaonic and also Roman periods in Egypt were quarried.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HARDSTONE QUARRIES . Miscellaneous notes. Quarries are numbered and ordered from north to south within groups according to region and usage (ornamental vs utilitarian). All quarries are plotted on the accompanying maps.