Ricerc@Sapienza

The exploration of the “Palace of the Copper Axes”, the Early Bronze Age III palace of the easternmost city of Southern Levant during the 3rd millennium BC, was resumed in 2018, during the 14th season of excavation at Khirbet al-Batrawy in north-central Jordan, and completed in 2019.

In the current literature, Saharan green-colored stone beads are identified with the term ´emeraude garamantique, while
several archaeological investigations on Garamantian contexts referred to them as amazonite. Moreover, according to the
hypothesis proposed by Monod, authors identify the only source of amazonite to be the pegmatite swarm at Eghei Zuma