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2020

Journal article

Bitumen from the Dead Sea in Early Iron Age Nubia

Bitumen has been identified for the first time in Egyptian occupied Nubia, from within the town of Amara West, occupied from around 1300 to 1050 BC. The bitumen can be sourced to the Dead Sea using biomarkers, evidencing a trade in this material from the eastern Mediterranean to Nubia in...

Fulcher, Kate ; Stacey, Rebecca ; Spencer, Neal
bitumen, Dead Sea, and Early Iron Age Nubia