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Bir Umm Fawakhir 3
Meyer, Carol; Heidorn, Lisa A.; Ikram, Salima; Jaeschke, Richard L.; Roby, Thomas C.
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Hardback. Num Pages: 172 pages, 48 figures, 132 plates, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Bir Umm Fawakhir 3 is the last of the final reports on the archaeological surveys and excavations at the Byzantine site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt; it remains the only intensively studied ancient Egyptian gold-mining operation, and one of very few completely mapped towns of the era. Along with other recent excavations and surveys, it demonstrates the Byzantine empire's continuing activities in the Eastern Desert, not abandonment, as had long been believed. Four survey seasons, in 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997, succeeded in dating the site to the fifth- and sixth-century Coptic/Byzantine period, mapping ... Read more
Bir Umm Fawakhir 3 is the last of the final reports on the archaeological surveys and excavations at the Byzantine site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt; it remains the only intensively studied ancient Egyptian gold-mining operation, and one of very few completely mapped towns of the era. Along with other recent excavations and surveys, it demonstrates the Byzantine empire's continuing activities in the Eastern Desert, not abandonment, as had long been believed. Four survey seasons, in 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997, succeeded in dating the site to the fifth- and sixth-century Coptic/Byzantine period, mapping ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781614910206
SKU
V9781614910206
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