阿拉伯谷地的冶金考古——“所罗门铜矿”之争

ARCHEOEMETALLURGY IN WADI ARABAH -ARGUMENT ABOUT KING SOLOMON'S MINES

由奔诺·罗森伯格领导的对“阿拉伯谷地”古铜矿冶遗址持续几十年的发掘和研究 ,在冶金考古方面取得了巨大的成就。古埃及哈托尔矿业神庙的发现证明所谓的所罗门的铜矿实际上属于古埃及。具重要意义的是在提姆纳第 3 9号遗址发现了迄今为止考古学家所找到的年代最古老的炼铜炉。遗址的采矿和冶炼技术反映出了早期矿冶状况和冶金技术对人类文明的推动作用。“阿拉伯谷地”

The several decades excavation and study on the copper mining and smelting sites in Wadi Arabah led by Beno Rothenberg had obtained great achievement in the field of archaeometallurgy. The most important findings such as the votive mask of Hathor, Egyptian Goddess of Mining, in the Egyptian mining temple at Timna, proved that the so called King Solomon's Mines belong to ancient Egyptian, indeed. The furnace unearthed at site 39th revealed the earliest smelting instrument in the world. The mining and smelting technologies reflected by the ruins gave the early face of metallurgy, and showed how metallurgy became one of the main elements of civilization step by step. Also the excellent works in Wadi Arabah have been taken as a sample by many scholars in other place of the world, and pushed the new action in those areas.