Seafaring Expeditions to Punt in the Middle Kingdom - Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt

In the 12th Dynasty the Egyptian state sent seafaring expeditions to the land of Punt from a harbor on the Red Sea. Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis have uncovered well preserved evidence of this harbor and the probable location of Punt.

About the author

Kathryn A. Bard (Ph.D. 1987), is Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. She has excavated in Egypt and Ethiopia, and her publications include Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 2015).
Rodolfo Fattovich+ (Ph.D. 1972), was Professor of Ethiopian Archaeology and Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Naples "L'Orientale," where he taught 1975-2014. He excavated in Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, and published over 200 articles and other works.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn A Bard, Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich+
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2018
• EAN: 9789004368507
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36850-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Culture and History of the Anc
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity