http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/cave-art-caribbean-mona-island-first-contact-archaeology/gold-mining-egypt-turin-papyrus-map-archaeology/
World's First Geologic Map Was Far Ahead of Its Time
A map drawn on papyrus more than 3,000 years ago helped spur the search for mineral wealth in modern Egypt.
If you’re searching for gold in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, you should bring water, a spare tire, an exploration geologist, and a good map. By 10:30 a.m. we’d already made use of all four. The left rear tire of our SUV had blown out on a rough desert track, but the spare held up, and now our small convoy had successfully deposited the geologist and the map atop the rocky, sandy soil of a place called Abu Zawal.
The geologist was named Leonard Karr, and the map was a printout from Google Earth. It was covered with Karr’s handwritten annotations, which to a layman were almost as mysterious as hieroglyphs: “flat felsik dikes,” “dead fresh,” “foliated black rock.”
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