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Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai
Egyptian turquoise-mining site and Hathor temple
Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai is a mining site and temple in the record of Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet, placed to about 1 km.
Three events on the site happened here, between 1839 and 1927: Semitic-speaking workers at the Sinai turquoise mines leave inscriptions in the new script at the temple and at Mines L and M (date disputed), and later Kirsopp Lake's Harvard expeditions find further inscriptions, published by Butin.
The temple yielded the sphinx (Sinai 345) and the statuette (Sinai 346); the rock inscriptions are at Mine L and Mine M, about 2 km from the temple.
Written from the site's records. Improve itPlaced from Wikipedia article coordinates for Serabit el-Khadim (29.0369 N, 33.4583 E); the temple plateau and Mine L lie within about 2.5 km of this point · Placed to about 1 kmOpen the mystery's map
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Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet
The mystery Egyptian turquoise-mining site and Hathor temple · 3 events
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Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai [Place PLC0DEDPWXGP98A]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDPWXGP98A
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title = {Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Place, catalog key PLC0DEDPWXGP98A},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDPWXGP98A}
}