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Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Book III, 12. Sitat: «At the extremity of Egypt and in the contiguous territory of both Arabia and Ethiopia there lies a region which contains many large gold mines, where the gold is secured in great quantities with much suffering and at great expense...»