Timna National Park Israel

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earliest known copper mines dating from 3000 mined by the egyptian pharoahs and also attributed to King Solomon The Timna Valley is located in southern Israel in the southwestern Arabah, approximately 30 km ( mi) north of the Gulf of Aqaba and the town of Eilat. The area is rich in copper ore, and has been actively mined by humans since the 6th millennium BCE

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