Iron shackles, Ghozza, EgyptM. Kačičnik, Institut français d'archéologie orientale
Posted on 03/27/2025 4:10:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
La Brújula Verde reports that some miners in ancient Egypt faced harsh conditions. Gold exploitation in Egypt dates back thousands of years, but reached its peak during the Ptolemaic period (304–30 b.c.), when government authorities controlled and operated as many as 40 mines. Over the past five years, French researchers have been investigating the mining site of Ghozza, in Egypt's Eastern Desert, and have revealed a village with various streets, residential blocks, administrative buildings, and baths. Inscriptions found at the site suggest that some workers were paid, but recently discovered iron shackles dating to the third century b.c. indicate that some of the Ptolemaic labor force consisted of enslaved individuals who were forced to work the mines. The manacles were designed exclusively to restrain humans and would have been fastened around the ankles. This would have made it difficult for the wearers to walk, but they would have still had full use of their hands and arms to carry out their mining tasks. The existence of these shackles lends credence to descriptions made by the second-century b.c. Greek historian Agatharchides, who recorded that miners in Egypt were sometimes prisoners of war and condemned criminals who worked ceaselessly, day and night, with their feet chained. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Antiquity.
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Iron shackles, Ghozza, EgyptM. Kačičnik, Institut français d'archéologie orientale
What’s a Grecian urn?
[[What Were Conditions Like for Egyptian Miners?]]
Fantastic conditions- they got to work from home, dress up like women if they wanted, demand that mining companies pay for their transitions- and got every other day off with pay- but they did have to be immunized boosted and wear 2 masks whenever a cold sprung up
I always read that there was so much gold in Egypt that they valued silver more...
They couldn’t buy beer.
a collosal ossuary
Sixteen tons and what do you get…
I also like the Devo version.
You load 64 debens
and what do you get?
Another wenut older
and deeper in debt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deben_(unit)
The wnt (pronounced wenut).
Another version—
Hieroglyphic for day.
https://linearbknossosmycenae.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/the-egyptian-hieroglyphic-word-for-day-hrw/
:^)
That stupid link switched to a mistake.
This was the real one for the weight in ancient Egypt called the deben.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deben_(unit)
the Brave search response:
Deben Egyptian Term
The term “deben” is an Egyptian term that refers to a measure of weight used during different periods of Ancient Egypt. Specifically:
Deben (Middle Kingdom): A measure of weight equivalent to about 13.6 grams.
Deben (New Kingdom): A measure of weight equivalent to about 91 grams, which is 10 kite.
so when do the “reparations” lawyers tee up?
About $5 a day...............
"What's this I hear about oppressed Egyptian minors? Bitching and moaning when asked to do a little work like teenagers all over the world, they should..."
"Huh?"
"Did what?"
"Back when?"
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