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Quseir Red Sea coffee and phosphate port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: coffee-trade wares.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Ottoman-era outlet for Nile grain and Yemeni coffee, with a fort and later an Italian phosphate works of 1912; harbour front layers span centuries of Red Sea trade.

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