The red land : the illustrated archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert /
"Based on twenty years of archaeological fieldwork conducted in the Eastern Desert, this book reveals the cultural and historical richness of this little known and seldom visited area in Egypt. A range of important archaeological sites dating from Prehistoric to Byzantine times is explored here...
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Historical overview
- Geography, climate, and people
- A Roman imperial road and the northern part of the Eastern Desert
- Shrines, bathtubs, and stone quarries : how the stone was quarried and moved along the desert roads to the Nile
- The joys and sorrows of the desert survey
- Gods of the desert : the temples and shrines of the Eastern Desert
- The horn of plenty : international trade
- Burying the dead in the Eastern Desert
- El Dorado : gold mines in the Eastern Desert
- Living in the desert
- The Ma'aza, 'Ababda, and Bisharin Bedouin
- Land of gemstones : emerald and amethyst mines in the Eastern Desert
- Water, the desert elixir
- The roads from Berenike to the Nile
- The last frontier : the southernmost sites in the Eastern Desert.
