🧿 Mons Smaragdus

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Mons Smaragdus, also known as the Sikait Mines and the Cleopatra Mines, in Wadi El Gemal National Park, Egypt, some fifteen miles from the coast of the Red Sea, is the site of emerald mining communities dating back to ancient Egypt.

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Mons Smaragdus is located in Egypt, in Africa.

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