Serabit el-Khadim (Arabic, also transliterated Serabit al-Khadim, Serabit el-Khadem) is a locality in the south-west Sinai Peninsula where turquoise was mined extensively in antiquity, mainly by the ancient Egyptians. Archaeological excavation, initially by Sir Flinders Petrie, revealed the ancient mining camps and a long-lived Temple of Hathor, the Egyptian goddess who was favoured as a protector in desert regions.

Further reading

• W.M.Flinders Petrie, Researches in Sinai, London, 1906.

External links

• http://www.geographia.com/egypt/sinai/serabit.htm
• a few photos are online here http://www.photomediashop.com/index.html?landscape___architecture_sinai_serabit_
  el_khadem.htm