Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1900 — Ancient Mines of Sinai. [ARTICLE]

Ancient Mines of Sinai.

History furnishes records of the working of the copper mines of Sinai from about 5,000 B. C. to 1200 B. C. These possessions brought on several bloody wars. The scepter of Pepl 11. of the sixth dynasty Is preserved In the British museum. The entrance, the ruins of the furnace, the crucibles, the huts of the miners and some fragments of tools still exist In the debris have been found remains of furnaces avd crucibles, slag and cinders.