The Shawahed quarry in Jordan was exploited in the IInd century AD.
See: Glueck, Nelson. “Explorations in Eastern Palestine, IV. Part I: Text.” The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, vol. 25/28, 1945, pp. iii–423. JSTOR,
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