Wadi Feynan

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The dry bed of Wadi Feynan/Wadi Ghuwayr in late spring (May 2014). The archaeological site of Ghuwayr 1 is visible on the rise in the centre-right of the image.

Wadi Feynan or Wadi Faynan (

Wadi Araba
.

Historically, the area had the largest

Mamluk period (1250–1516 CE).[1][2] It also has a number of significant early prehistoric sites.[3][4][5]

Part of the wadi is included in the

Feynan Ecolodge, there in 2005.[6][7]

Archaeological sites

Excavations

Archaeological sites in Faynan have been extensively excavated by the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project, led by Thomas E. Levy and Mohammad Najjar. Levy and Najjar have argued that Iron Age sites in the region relate to the earliest phases of the Biblical kingdom of Edom. These scholars, along with Erez Ben-Yosef, also argue that Pharaoh Shoshenk I of Egypt (the Biblical "Shishak"), who attacked Jerusalem in the 10th century BC, encouraged the trade and production of copper instead of destroying the region.[8][9][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Wadi Faynan, Copper Mine". World Archaeology. No. 13. 2005-09-07. Archived from the original on 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
  2. ISSN 1687-885X
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  3. S2CID 140169403
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  4. JSTOR j.ctt1cd0nbr
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  5. ^ "New excavations at WF16, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site in southern Jordan". Antiquity. Archived from the original on 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
  6. ^ "Feynan Ecolodge". EcoHotels. 2013-05-11. Archived from the original on 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
  7. ^ Costas, Chris; Siber, Kate (November 2008). "Top Ecolodges: Desert". National Geographic Adventure. National Geographic Society. Archived from the original on 2017-01-20. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
  8. ^ "Israeli researchers identify biblical kingdom of Edom - Israel News - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com. Archived from the original on 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  9. ^ Amanda Borschel-Dan. "Bible-era nomadic Edomite tribesmen were actually hi-tech copper mavens". www.timesofisrael.com. Archived from the original on 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  10. PMID 31532811
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