Archaeologists recently unearthed an impressive mining complex dating back 3,000 years, which had been used to extract gold and pulverize and filter quartz.

Found beneath Luxor’s Valley of the Kings at Jabal Sukari, southwest of Marsa ... into smelting furnaces used for refining gold from quartz veins. “The project included archaeological ...

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported that excavation was conducted at Jabal Sukari ... factory for extracting gold from quartz veins," a translated version of the statement ...