Study the damage causes in the limestone Plates inscriptions at Habwa archaeological hill in Sinai

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Aswan University ,new Aswan city ,Faculty of Archaeology (Egypt)

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Tel Habwa is located at a distance of 3 km east of the Suez Canal to the northeast of the city of Qantara east, and contains the site of engraved archaeological inscriptions of several stones, perhaps the most greatly affected were Limestone stelas because they were affected by the surrounding environment, especially some of them were buried in salt soil moist until recently, which led to the fall of large parts of them, which prompted the researcher to study these stelas , In order to determine the condition of these paintings and the damage they suffered, their components were examined with the naked eye and with magnifying lenses. In the X-ray dispersing unit (EDX, XRD diffraction), the plates were made up of calcite CaCO3, Ankerite Ca (Fe2,Mg,Mn2)(CO3)2, hematite Fe2O3 and a percentage of quartz SiO2, and they contained salts such as halite NaCl, Caminite Mg7(SO4)5(OH)4.H2O and Blodite Na2Mg(SO4)2 (H2O)4

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