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Places tagged “imperial”

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder

Mons Porphyrites

Roman Imperial (18 CE–4th c. CE; peak Hadrianic 130–200 CE) · Roman

Mons Porphyrites (Jabal Abu Duhhan) is the world's only imperial porphyry source, 950 m Red Sea mountain, producing purple leucocratic andesine porphyry monolithic columns and sarcophagus of…

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder

Mons Claudianus

Roman Imperial (1st–4th c. CE; peak Trajan–Hadrian 98–138 CE) · Roman (Imperial quarrying)

Mons Claudianus is a remote Eastern Desert granodiorite (quartz-diorite) imperial quarry, 700 m altitude between Nile and Red Sea, source of grey column shafts for Pantheon, Trajan's Forum and Villa…