Timna

• The Timna valley is located 19 miles (30km) north of Eilat in Israel.
• It has 2,000 tons of slag from ancient Copper Mines that have been worked for over 6,500 years.

Description

• The so-called ‘King Solomon’s Pillars’ are rock formations which stand at the end of the Timna valley, which were named by the American Archeologist Nelson Glueck in 1930.
• Just below the base of the Pillars was found a temple to Hathor, the Egyptian Goddess of Mining, built in the 14th century BCE.

Timna Valley