February 26, 2009

Serabit Al-Khadim Restoration Project

Anyone who has spent much time thinking about ancient Semitic languages has worried at least a little about the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions that Flinders Petrie discovered in 1905. Petrie found those first Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions at Serabit Al-Khadim in the Sinai. It turns out that Egypt as launched an effort to restore and better document the Serabit Al-Khadim temple, the related turquoise mines and the surrounding area. Among other things they want to make it a tourist site. It would be wonderful if they also found a few more inscriptions, longer ones would sure be nice.

Posted by Duane Smith at February 26, 2009 8:12 PM | Read more on Archaeology |

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