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Deraheib Gold Mines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Douglas NewBold
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Deraheib is the name of an ancient site in the Wadi Allagi in lat. 21°57’, long 35°81′, i.e. just within the Sudan political frontier. The name is undoubtedly Beja in form but may be derived from the Beidawi ‘d‧ir’ ‘to build’ or the Arabi ‘Deir’ which is used in Egypt for monasteries or other ancient buildings. Possibly, these two words are connected with each other. It should be noted that there is a place called ‘Dereheib Baanet’, 40 miles north of Deraheib, with ruins of a tomb, and the famous Assarema Deraheib ‘The Seven Buildings’, in Khor Gamarota 20 miles inland from Akik.

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Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 85 , March 1948 , pp. 33 - 34
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1948

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References

1 Crowfoot, J.W. ‘Some Red Sea Ports in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan’, Geogr. Journ., May 1911 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Prof. Monneret de Villard assigns them to the 10th century A.D. See his La Nubia Medioevale, I, 276 Google Scholar, and his Storia della Nubia Cristiana, 1938, 115.—EdGoogle Scholar.