July 2017: Timna Park, Cathonic Copper Mines
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OK, somehow this page got out of order, and should be after the Mushroom Area post. But anyway...
This is an area of Timna Park where tourists and researchers can easily access gallery mine shafts where the ancient Egyptians extracted copper. You can still see plenty of copper in the soft stone.
I recorded reverberations of a sistrum in these mine shafts. The sistrum was an instrument sacred to the priestesses and musicians of Hathor. Typically know as a goddess of music, motherhood, sensuality, sexuality, and...beer...in her guise as Goddess of the Mountain, she was the patron goddess of miners.
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