Tura (Egyptian Arabic: طرة Tora  IPA: [ˈtˤoɾˤɑ], Coptic: ⲧⲣⲱⲁ, Ancient Greek: Τρωια or Τρωη) was the primary quarry for limestone in ancient Egypt. The...

Mountains and Siberia Other Tura Beach, New South Wales, a community in Australia Tura, Egypt, a town in Cairo Governorate, Egypt Tura, Hungary, a city in Pest...

"pharaoh" is used for those rulers of Ancient Egypt who ruled after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by Narmer during the Early Dynastic Period,...

white limestone from Tura and granite from Aswan. In 2013, papyri, named Diary of Merer, were discovered at an ancient Egyptian harbor at the Red Sea...

 Wadi al-Jarf   Find-spot   Giza   Tura quarries  The Diary of Merer (also known as Papyrus Jarf) is the name for papyrus logbooks written over 4,500 years...

Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינָֽי‎ Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), also known as Jabal Musa (Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ,...

base. These casing stones were made of fine white limestone quarried at Tura. Khafre's pyramid complex consists of a valley temple, the Sphinx temple...

Roman Egypt was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai....

white Tura limestone, but only a few of these stones now remain at the pyramid's base, at the corner. During the Middle Ages much of the white Tura limestone...

desert and the Mediterranean, stretching from Moroccan Atlantic coast to Egypt. The region has no set definition, and varies from source to source. Generally...