CAIRO – 9 May 2022: Geologist Abou Al Hagag Nasr El Din, who is member of the technical committee of the Golden Triangle, called Monday for the revival of the "Imperial Marble Quarry" located western Red Sea's Safaga town in the Eastern Desert. The geologist noted that the marble extracted from such quarry was labeled "imperial" because it was used in building the columns of the Greco-Roman castles and temples. Nasr El Din said that work at the quarry persisted for 100-150 years, but later, has been neglected for centuries. He noted that large reserves of the "imperial marble" still exist in the area lying just 45 kilometers away from Safaga, which has a seaport. In 2017, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi issued a decree turning the Golden Triangle, extending between Red Sea's Safaga and Qusair, and Qena's Qift, into an economic zone.
