Wadi Mafket
Wadi Mafket is a port on the Gulf of Mafket on the southwestern edge of the Governate of . It is a prominent fishing town and also a travel destination for people from who want to visit the coast, having similar climate benefits as the Ruby Sea. It is also a location where large oceangoing ships transship cargo headed through the Canal of the Pharaohs and eventually on up the Stygian or to the Sea of Baal. In addition, traders go from here in smaller river-ships to the Gulf of and up the Heshbon River to Geara. They are willing to risk encounters with the pirate ships of the Numedan corsairs to move Geara’s metal goods to market more quickly.
The city has moderate weather, receiving rain from the Gulf of Mafket, and is watered by a seasonal river from the mountains. Wadi Mafket holds a temple to Anqet, goddess of rivers and water, and also one to Geb, god of earth. It is a Khemitian settlement, rather than native Tahmakhtim, and has been on this site since the time of the conjoined double kingdoms.
Mining turquoise from the western Jeshennin Mountains is the most valuable local industry. A nearby valley leads to two important turquoise mines on facing sides of different mountains. Called the Valley of Caves, the approach to the mines has been filled with monuments to various pharaohs from the 5th to the 33rd dynasties, and small shrines to deities such as Horus and Thoth.
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Wadi Mafket, City of
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City
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