Back وادي الهودي Arabic وادى الهودى ARZ Wadi el-Hudi German Uadi el-Hudi Spanish Ouadi el-Houdi French Wadi el-Hudi NB Vadi El Hudi Slovenian วาดีอัลฮูดี Thai
The Wadi el-Hudi is a wadi in Southern Egypt, in the Eastern Desert. Here were ancient quarries for amethyst. The Wadi el-Hudi is important in archaeology for its high number of rock inscriptions and stelae, mainly dating to the Middle Kingdom, as amethyst was especially popular in this period. The Wadi el-Hudi ends in the Nile valley a few kilometers north of Aswan and is coming there from the South-East. The ancient amethyst quarries are about 20 kilometres south-east from Aswan.[1]
- ^ Ashraf I. Sadek: Wadi el-Hudi: The amethyst mining Inscriptions I, Text, Warminster 1980, ISBN 0-85668-162-8, p. 1, map 1, on p. 177