Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 1
Prehistoric
M.A. Hoffman, Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991).
B. Midant-Reynes, The Prehistory of Egypt (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2000).
Pharaonic Period
J. Baines and J. Málek, Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt (New York: Checkmark Books, 2000).
J.H. Breasted, A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937).
P.A. Clayton, Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt (London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1994).
I. Dodson and D. Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2004).
T.G.H. James, An Introduction to Ancient Egypt (London: British Museum Publications Ltd, 1979).
I. Shaw, ed., The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
I. Shaw and P. Nicholson, The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (London: British Museum Press, 1995).
T.A.H. Wilkinson, Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2005).
T.A.H. Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt (New York-London: Routledge, 2006).
C. Ziegler, ed., The Pharaohs (London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2002).
Ptolemaic Era
A. Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire des Lagides, reprint ed. (Aalen: Scientia Verlag, 1978).
A.K. Bowman, Egypt After the Pharaohs 332 BC–AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
M. Chauveau (trans. D. Lorton), Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra. History and Society under the Ptolemies (Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2000).
P.M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).
G. Hölbl, A History of the Ptolemaic Empire (London-New York: Routledge, 2001).
A. E. Samuel, The Shifting Sands of History: Interpretations of Ptolemaic Egypt (Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 2) (Lanham-New York-London: University Press of America, 1989).
Roman Period
R. Alston, Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt: A Social History (London-New York: Routledge, 1995).
R.S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
A.K. Bowman, Egypt After the Pharaohs 332 BC–AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
R.B. Jackson, At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier (New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2002).
A.C. Johnson, Roman Egypt. Volume 2 of T. Frank, ed., An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1936).
J. Lesquier, L'Armée romaine d'Égypte d'Auguste à Dioclétien (MIFAO 41) (Cairo: IFAO, 1918).
N. Lewis, Life in Egypt Under Roman Rule (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
Topography and Geology of the Red Sea and Eastern Desert
A.J. Edwards and S.M. Head, eds., Key Environments-Red Sea (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987).
K.A. Kitchen, “Red Sea Harbours, Hinterlands and Relationships in Pre-classical Antiquity,” in J. Starkey, P. Starkey and T. Wilkinson, eds., Natural Resources and Cultural Connections of the Red Sea (Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 5) (BARis 1661) (Oxford: Archeopress, 2007): 131–141.
B.M. Sampsell, A Traveler's Guide to the Geology of Egypt (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2004).
R. Said, The Geology of Egypt (Amsterdam-New York: Elsevier, 1962).
Prehistoric and Early Dynastic Rock Graffiti
P. Červiček, Felsbilder der Nord-Ethbai, Oberägyptens und Unternubiens (Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag, 1974).
S. Redford and D.B. Redford, “Graffiti and Petroglyphs Old and New from the Eastern Desert,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 26 (1989): 3–49.
D. Rohl, ed., The Followers of Horus Eastern Desert Survey Report. Volume I (Thames View, Abingdon, Oxon: ISIS, 2000).
H.A. Winkler, Rock Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt I (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1939).
Ptolemaic History (General)
A. Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire des Lagides, reprint edition (Aalen: Scientia Verlag, 1978).
P.M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972)
G. Hölbl, A History of the Ptolemaic Empire (London-New York: Routledge, 2001).
Bedouin of the Eastern Desert
J.J. Hobbs, Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1989).
G.W. Murray, Sons of Ishmael. A Study of the Egyptian Bedouin (London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1935).
L.A. Tregenza, The Red Sea Mountains of Egypt (London-New York-Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1955).
Ancient Maps, Geographers, and Itineraries
O.A.W. Dilke, Greek and Roman Maps (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985).
B. Salway, “Travel, Itineraria and Tabellaria,” in C. Adams and R. Laurence, eds., Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire (London-New York: Routledge, 2001): 22–66.
R.K. Sherk, “Roman Geographical Exploration and Military Maps,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.1 (1974): 534–562.
J.N. Wilford, The Mapmakers. The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age (London: Pimlico, 2002).
Early European Explorers
J. Starkey and O. El Daly, eds., Desert Travellers from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence (Durham: Astene Publications, 2000).
Chapter 3
The Via Nova Hadriana, Antinoopolis, Hadrian, and Antinoos
A.R. Birley, Hadrian: The Restless Emperor (London-New York: Routledge, 1997).
M.T. Boatwright, Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
R. Chevallier, Les voies romaines (Paris: Picard, 1997)
L. Del Francia Barocas, Antinoe Cent'Anni Dopo. Catologo della mostra Firenze Palazzo Medici Riccardi 10 luglio - 1° novembre 1998. Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” Firenze (Florence: Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli”, 1998).
R. Lambert, Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous (New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1992).
S.E. Sidebotham and R.E. Zitterkopf, “Survey of the Via Hadriana by the University of Delaware: The 1996 Season,” Bulletin de l'Institut français de Archéologie Orientale 97 (1997): 221–237.
S.E. Sidebotham and R.E. Zitterkopf, “Survey of the Via Hadriana: The 1997 Season,” Bulletin de l'Institut français de Archéologie Orientale 98 (1998): 353–365.
S.E. Sidebotham, R.E. Zitterkopf and C.C. Helms, “Survey of the Via Hadriana: The 1998 Season,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 37 (2000): 115–126.
S.E. Sidebotham and R.E. Zitterkopf, “Surveying the Via Nova Hadriana: The Emperor Hadrian's Desert Highway in Egypt,” Minerva 17, no. 3 (May/June 2006): 34–35.
E. Speller, Following Hadrian: A Second-century Journey through the Roman Empire (London: Review, 2002).
M. Yourcener, Memoirs of Hadrian (NewYork Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954).
The Fort at Abu Sha'r and Nearby Installations
R.S. Bagnall and J.A. Sheridan, “Greek and Latin Documents from ‘Abu Sha‘ar, 1990–1991,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 31 (1994): 159–168.
R.S. Bagnall and J.A. Sheridan, “Greek and Latin Documents from ‘Abu Sha‘ar, 1992–1993,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 31 (1994): 109–120.
L. Bender Jørgensen, “The Late Roman Fort at Abū Sha‘ār, Egypt: Textiles in Their Archaeological Context,” Textiles In Situ Their Find Spots in Egypt and Neighbouring Countries in the First Millennium CE (Riggisberger Berichte 13) (2006): 161–174.
L. Mulvin and S.E. Sidebotham, “Roman Game Boards from Abu Sha‘ar (Red Sea Coast, Egypt),” Antiquity 78, no. 301 (September 2004): 602–617.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Preliminary Report on the 1990–1991 Seasons of Fieldwork at ‘Abu Sha‘ar (Red Sea Coast),” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 31 (1994): 133–158.
S.E. Sidebotham, “University of Delaware Archaeological Project at ‘Abu Sha‘ar: The 1992 Season,” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 161/162 (Spring/Summer 1993): 1–9.
S.E. Sidebotham, “University of Delaware Fieldwork in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1993” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 48 (1994): 263–275.
S.E. Sidebotham, J.A. Riley, H.A. Hamroush, and H. Barakat, “Fieldwork on the Red Sea Coast: The 1987 Season,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 26 (1989): 127–166.
W. Van Neer and S.E. Sidebotham, “Animal Remains from the Fourth–sixth Century AD Military Installations near Abu Sha‘ar at the Red Sea Coast (Egypt),” Jennerstrasse 8, ed., Tides of the Desert - Gezeiten der Wüste - Contributions to the Archaeology and Environmental History of Africa in Honor of Rudolph Kuper (14 Africa Praehistorica. Monographs on African Archaeology and Environment) (Bonn: Heinrich-Barth-lnstitut, 2002): 171–195.
The Cities and Inscriptions of Tentyris, Coptos, Apollonopolis Magna, and Syene on the Nile
A. Bernand, Les Ports du désert. Recueil des inscriptions grecques d'Antinooupolis, Tentyris, Koptos, Apollonopolis Parva et Apollonopolis Magna (Paris: Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, 1984).
Coptos L'Egypte antique aux portes du désert. Lyon, museé des Beaux-Arts 3 février-mai 2000 (Lyon: Museé des Beaux Arts/Paris: Réunion des museés nationaux, 2000).
S.C. Herbert and A. Berlin, eds., Kelsey Museum of the University of Michigan, University of Assiut Excavations at Coptos (Qift) in Upper egypt, 1987–1992 (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series number 53) (Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2003).
The Coptos Tariff
F. Burkhalter, “Le ‘Tarif de Coptos’ La douane de Coptos, les fermiers de l'apostolion et le prefer du désert de Bérénice,” Topoi Supplement 3 (2002): 199–233.
The Red Sea–Indian Ocean Trade
D. Peacock and D. Williams, eds., Food for the Gods. New Light on the Ancient Incense Trade (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007).
M.G. Raschke, “New Studies in Roman Commerce with the East,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.9.2 (1978): 604–1378.
S.E. Sidebotham, Roman Economic Policy in the Erythra Thalassa 30 BC–AD 217 (Mnemosyne supplement no. 91) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986).
J. Starkey, P. Starkey and T. Wilkinson, eds., Natural Resources and Cultural Connections of the Red Sea (Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 5) (BARis 1661) (Oxford: Archeopress, 2007).
G.K. Young, Rome's Eastern Trade International Commerce and Imperial Policy, 31 BC–AD 305 (London-New York: Routledge, 2001).
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
J. Thompson, Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1992).
Chapter 4
Predynastic, Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, and Roman Quarries, Wadi Hammamat
V.M. Brown and J.A. Harrell, “Topographical and Petrological Survey of Ancient Roman Quarries in the Eastern Desert of Egypt,” in Y. Maniatis, N. Herz, and Y. Basiakos, eds., The Study of Marble and Other Stones Used in Antiquity – ASMOSIA III Athens: Transactions of the 3rd International Symposium of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones used in Antiquity (London: Archetype Publications, 1995): 221–234.
J. Couyat and P. Montet, Les inscriptions hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques du Ouâdi Hammâmât (Cairo: IFAO, 1912).
G. Goyon, Nouvelles inscriptions rupestres du Wadi Hammamat (Paris: Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1957).
D. Farout, “La carrière du wHmw Ameny et l'organisation des expéditions au ouadi Hammamat au Moyen Empire,” Bulletin de l'Instuut français de Archéologie Orientale 94 (1994): 143–172.
J.A. Harrell, “A Stone Vessel Quarry at Gebel Umm Naqqat,” Egyptian Archaeology 24 (2004): 34–36.
J.A. Harrell, “Pharaonic Stone Quarries in the Egyptian Deserts,” in R. Friedman, ed., Egypt and Nubia Gifts of the Desert (London: The British Museum Press, 2002): 232–243.
J.A. Harrell and V.M. Brown, “A Late-period Quarry for Naoi in the Eastern Desert,” Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1999): 18–20.
J.A. Harrell and V.M. Brown, “Rock Sawing at a Roman Diorite Quarry in Wadi Umm Shegilat, Egypt,” in J.J. Herrmann, Jr., N. Herz, and R. Newman, eds., Asmosia 5: Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone (London: Archetype Publications, 2002): 52–57.
J.A. Harrell and L. Lazzarini, “A New Variety of Granite Bianco e Nero from Wadi Barud, Egypt,” in J.J. Herrmann, Jr., N. Herz, and R. Newman, eds., Asmosia 5: Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone (London: Archetype Publications, 2002): 47–51.
J.A. Harrell, V.M. Brown, and L. Lazzarini, “Breccia Verde Antica: Sources, Petrology, and Ancient Uses,” in L. Lazzarini, ed., ASMOSIA VI Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference Venice, June 15–18, 2000. Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone (Padova: Bottega d'Erasmo, 2000): 207–218.
T. Hikade, “Expeditions to the Wadi Hammamat During the New Kingdom,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 92 (2006): 153–168.
Mons Porphyrites and Its Environs
V. Maxfield, D. Peacock, eds., The Roman Imperial Quarries Survey and Excavation at Mons Porphyrites 1994–98. Volume 1: Topography and Quarries (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2001).
G.W. Murray, “An Archaic Hut in Wadi Umm Sidrah,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 25 (1939): 38–39.
D. Peacock and V. Maxfield, eds., The Roman Imperial Quarries Survey and Excavation at Mons Porphyrites 1994–1998. Volume 2: The Excavations (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2007).
Mons Claudianus and Its Environs
H. Cuvigny, “The Amount of Wages Paid to the Quarry-Workers at Mons Claudianus,” Journal of Roman Studies 86 (1996): 139–145.
V.A. Maxfield and D.P.S. Peacock, eds., Survey and Excavation Mons Claudianus 1987–1993. Volume 2 Excavations: Part I (FIFAO 43) (Cairo: IFAO, 2001).
V.A. Maxfield and D.P.S. Peacock, eds., Survey and Excavations. Mons Claudianus 1987–1993. Vol. 3: Ceramic Vessels and Related Objects from Mons Claudianus (FIFAO 54) (Cairo: IFAO, 2006).
D.P.S. Peacock, V.A. Maxfield, eds., Mons Claudianus. Survey and Excavation I. Topography and Quarries (FIFAO 37) (Cairo: IFAO, 1997).
S.E. Sidebotham, “Newly Discovered Sites in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 82 (1996): 181–192.
Wadi Umm Wikala (Mons Ophiates)
S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard, J.A. Harrell and R.S. Tomber, “The Roman Quarry and Installations in Wadi Umm Wikala and Wadi Semna,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 87 (2001): 135–170.
Roman Roads and Stations between the Quarries and the Nile
H. Cuvigny, ed., La route de Myos Hormos. L'armée romaine dans le désert Oriental d'Égypte (FIFAO 48/1 and 48/2) (Cairo: IFAO, 2003).
S.E. Sidebotham, “Caravans Across the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Recent Discoveries on the Berenike–Apollonopolis Magna–Coptos Roads,” in A. Avanzini, ed., Profumi d'Arabia. Atti del Convegno (Saggi di Storia antica 11) (Rome: “L'Erma” di Bretschneider, 1997): 385–394.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Newly Discovered Sites in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 82 (1996): 181–192.
S.E. Sidebotham, “From Berenike to Koptos: Recent Results of the Desert Route Survey,” Topoi 10 (2002): 415–438.
S.E. Sidebotham, R.E. Zitterkopf and J.A. Riley, “Survey of the ‘Abu Sha‘ar-Nile Road,” American Journal of Archaeology 95, no. 4 (1991): 571–622.
R.E. Zitterkopf and S.E. Sidebotham, “Stations and Towers on the Quseir–Nile Road,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 75 (1989): 155–189.
Arthur E.P. Weigall
J. Hankey, A Passion for Egypt A Biography of Arthur Weigall (London-New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2001).
A.E.P. Weigall, Travels in the Upper Egyptian Deserts (Edinburgh-London: William Black wood and Sons, 1913).
George William Murray
G.W. Murray, Dare Me to the Desert (New York-South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1968).
G.W. Murray, Sons of Ishmael A Study of the Egyptian Bedouin (London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1935).
T.M. Herbich, “Magnetic Survey,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007) : 22–29.
Leo A. Tregenza
L.A. Tregenza, Egyptian Years (London-New York-Toronto: Oxford Universiry Press, 1958).
L. Tregenza, Harbour Village Yesterday in Cornwall (London: William Kimber, 1977).
L.A. Tregenza, The Red Sea Mountains of Egypt (London-New York-Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1955).
Chapter 6
Amethyst Mines in Wadi Abu Diyeiba
J.A. Harrell and S.E. Sidebotham, “Wadi Abu Diyeiba: An Amethyst Quarry in Egypt'S Eastern Desert,” Minerva 15, no. 6 (November-December 2004): 12–14.
J.A. Harrell, S.E. Sidebotham, S. Marchand, R.S. Bagnall, J.E. Gates, and J. L. Rivard, “The Ptolemaic to Early Roman Amethyst Quarry at Abu Diyeiba in Egypt's Eastern Desert,” Bulletin de l'Instuut français de Archéologie Orientale 106 (2006): 127–162.
Mons Porphyrites
V.A. Maxfield, “Stone Quarrying in the Eastern Desert with Particular Reference to Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites,” in D.J. Mattingly and J. Salmon, eds., Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World (London-New York: Routledge, 2001): 143–170.
V. Maxfield and D. Peacock, eds., The Roman Imperial Quarries Survey and Excavation at Mons Porphyrues 1994–1998. Volume 1: Topography and Quarries (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2001).
D.P.S. Peacock and V.A. Maxfield, The Imperial Quarries. Survey and Excavation at Mons Porphyrites, 1994–1998. Volume 2: The Excavations. 82nd Excavation Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Society (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2007).
Mons Claudianus
V.A. Maxfield and D.P.S. Peacock, eds., Survey and Excavation Mons Claudianus 1987–1993. Volume 2: Excavations: Part I (FIFAO 43) (Cairo: IFAO, 2001).
V.A. Maxfield and D.P.S. Peacock, eds., Survey and Excavations. Mons Claudianus 1987–1993. Vol. 3: Ceramic Vessels and Related Objects from Mons Claudianus (FIFAO 54) (Cairo: IFAO, 2006).
D.P.S. Peacock and V.A. Maxfield, eds., Survey and Excavations Mons Claudianus 1987–1993. Volume 1: Topography and Quarries (FIFAO 37) (Cairo: IFAO, 1997).
Mons Ophiates
S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard, J.A. Harrell and R.S. Tomber, “The Roman Quarry and Installations in Wadi Umm Wikala and Wadi Semna,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 87 (2001): 135–170.
Sikait and Nugrus
B.C. Foster, J.-L.G. Rivard, S.E. Sidebotham, and H. Cuvigny, “Survey of the Emerald Mines at Wadi Sikait 2000/2001 Seasons,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007): 304–343.
J.-L. Rivard, B.C. Foster, and S.E. Sidebotham, “Emerald City,” Archaeology 55, no. 3 (May–June 2002): 36–41.
S.E. Sidebotham, H.M. Nouwens, A.M. Hense, and J.A. Harrell, “Preliminary Report on Archaeological Fieldwork at Sikait (Eastern Desert of Egypt), and Environs: 2002–2003,” Sahara 15 (2004): 7–30.
S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard, L.A. Pintozzi, and R.S. Tomber, “The Enigma of Ka‘b Marfu‘: Precious Gems in Egypt's Eastern Desert,” Minerva 16, no. 1 (January/February 2005): 24–26.
Bir Kareim
D. Whitcomb, “Bir Kareim,” in D.S. Whitcomb and J.H. Johnson, eds., Quseir al-Qadim 1980 Preliminary Report (American Research Center in Egypt Reports, Volume 7) (Malibu, California: Undena Publications, 1982): 391–396.
Myos Hormos-Nile Road
H. Cuvigny, Ostraca de Krokodilô. La correspondence militaire et sa circulation (O. Krok. 1–151). Praesidia du désert de Bérénice II (FIFAO 51) (Cairo: IFAO, 2005).
H. Cuvigny, ed., La route de Myos Hormos. L'armée romaine dans le désert Oriental d'Égypte (FIFAO 48/1 and 48/2) (Cairo: IFAO, 2003).
R.E. Zitterkopf and S.E. Sidebotham, “Stations and Towers on the Quseir–Nile Road,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 75 (1989): 155–189.
Berenike
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1995).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1996).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1998).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS, 1999).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden: CNWS, 2000).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: Archaeological fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman port on the Red Sea coast of Egypt: 1994–1998,” Sahara 10 (1998): 85–96.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: Archaeological fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman port on the Red Sea coast of Egypt: 1999–2001,” Sahara 13 (2001–2002): 23–50.
Myos Hormos
D. Peacock, L. Blue, eds., Myos Hormos – Quseir al-Qadim Roman and Islamic Ports on the Red Sea. Volume 1 Survey and Excavations 1999–2003 (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006).
D.S. Whitcomb and J.H. Johnson, eds., Quseir al-Qadim 1978 Preliminary Report (Cairo-Princeton: American Research Center in Egypt, 1979).
D.S. Whitcomb and J.H. Johnson, eds., Quseir al-Qadim 1980 Preliminary Report (American Research Center in Egypt Reports vol. 7) (Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1982).
Christian Remains
R.S. Bagnall and J.A. Sheridan, “Greek and Latin Documents from ‘Abu Sha‘ar, 1990–1991,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 31 (1994): 159–168.
R.S. Bagnall and J.A, Sheridan, “Greek and Latin Documents from ‘Abu Sha‘ar, 1992–1993,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 31 (1994): 109–120.
D.J. Chitty, The Desert a City (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1966).
M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Middle Ages (Oxford: Black well Publishers, Ltd., 2000).
W. Harmless, Desert Christians. An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
J. Kamil, Coptic Egypt History and Guide, revised ed. (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1990).
O.F.A. Meinardus, Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Deserts, revised ed. (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1989).
D. Peacock, L. Blue, eds., Myos Hormos – Quseir al-Qadim Roman and Islamic Ports on the Red Sea. Volume 1: Survey and Excavations 1999–2003 (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006).
T. Power, “The ‘Arabians’ of pre-Islamic Egypt,” in J. Starkey, P. Starkey, and T. Wilkinson, eds., Natural Resources and Cultural Connections of the Red Sea (Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 5) (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1661) (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2007): 195–210.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Late Roman Berenike,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 39 (2002): 217–240.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Preliminary Report on the 1990–1991 Seasons of Fieldwork at ‘Abu Sha‘ar (Red Sea Coast),” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 31 (1994): 133–158.
S.E. Sidebotham, “University of Delaware Archaeological Project at Abu Sha‘ar: The 1992 Season,” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 161/162 (Spring/Summer 1993): 1–9.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt: 1999–2001,” Sahara 13(2001–2002): 23–50.
S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard, and G. Pyke, “Five Enigmatic Late Roman Settlements in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 88 (2002): 187–225.
S.E. Sidebotham, R.E. Zitterkopf, and J.A. Riley, “Survey of the ‘Abu Sha‘ar-Nile Road,” American Journal of Archaeology 95, no. 4 (1991): 571–622.
General on Religion in the Eastern Desert
S.H. Aufrère, “Religious Prospects of the Mine in the Eastern Desert in Ptolemaic and Roman Times (= Autour de l'univers mineral VIII),” in O.E. Kaper, ed., Life on the Fringe. Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts during the Roman and Early Byzantine Periods Proceedings a Colloquium Held on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo 9–12 December 1996 (Leiden: CNWS, 1998): 5–19
G. Hölbl, Altägypten im römischen Reich. Der römische Pharao und seine Tempel III. Heiligtümer und religiöses Leben in den ägyptischen Wüsten und Oasen (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2005): 4–34.
C. Traunecker, “Le Panthéon du Ouadi Hammârnât (Inscription n° 58),” Tapoi Supplement 3 (2003): 355–383.
Bir Abu Safa
S.E. Sidebotham, G.T. Mikhail, J.A. Harrell, and RS. Bagnall, “A Water Temple at Bir Abu Safa (Eastern Desert),” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 41 (2004): 149–159.
Louis Maurice Linant de Bellefonds
L. de Bellefonds, L'Etbaye pays habité par les Arabes Bicharieh, géographie, ethnologie, mines d'or (Paris:A. Bertrand, 1868).
Chapter 7
Pharaonic Egypt
K.A. Bard, R. Fattovich, and C. Ward, “Sea Port to Punt: New Evidence from Marsa Gawasis, Red Sea (Egypt),” in J. Starkey, P. Starkey, and T. Wilkinson, eds., Natural Resources and Cultural Connections of the Red Sea (Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 5) (BARis 1661) (Oxford: Archeopress, 2007): 143–148.
H. Frost, “‘Ports’ Cairns and Anchors. A Pharaonic Outlet on the Red Sea,” Topoi 6, no. 2 (1996): 869–902.
A. Lucas and J.R. Harris, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries, 4th ed. (London: Histories & Mysteries of Man Ltd, 1989).
P.T. Nicholson and I. Shaw, eds., Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
A.M.A.H. Sayed, The Red Sea and its Hinterland in Antiquity. A Collection of Papers Published in the Arabic and European Periodicals (Alexandria: Dar al-Ma‘rifa al-Gam‘iya, 1993).
Ptolemaic Egypt
S.M. Burstein, “Ivory and Ptolemaic Exploration of the Red Sea: The Missing Factor,” Topoi 6, no. 2 (1996): 799–807.
P.M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).
J. Harzfeld, Les trafiquants italiens dans l'orient hellénique (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1919).
G. Hölbl, A History of the Ptolemaic Empire (London: Routledge, 2001).
H. H. Scullard, The Elephant in the Greek and Roman World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974).
Red Sea-Indian Ocean Trade
V. Begley, ed., The Ancient Port of Arikamedu: New Excavations and Researches 1989-1992 Vol. I (Mémoires Archéologiques 22) (Pondicherry, India: École française d'Extrêrme-Orient, 1996).
V. Begley, ed., The Ancient Port of Arikamedu: New Excavations and Researches 1989–1992, Volume II (Mémoires Archéologiques 22.2) (Paris: École française d'Extrêrme-Orient, 2004).
A. Dalby, Food in the Ancient World from A to Z (London-New York: Routledge, 2003).
D. Peacock and D. Williams, eds., Food for the Gods. New light on the Ancient Incense Trade (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007).
M.G. Raschke, “New Studies in Roman Commerce with the East,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.9.2 (1978): 604–1378.
J.-F. Salles and A.V. Sedov, Qani’: Le port antique du Hadramawt entre la Mediterrannée, l'Afrique et l'Inde. Fouilles russes 1972, 1985-1989, 1991, 1993–1994 (Indicopleustoi) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008).
S.E. Sidebotham, Roman Economic Policy in the Erythra Thalassa 30 BC–AD 217 (Mnemosyne supplement no. 91) (Leiden: Brill, 1986).
G.K. Young, Rome's Eastern Trade. International Commerce and Imperial Policy, 31 BC–AD 305 (London-New York: Routledge, 2001).
Coptos
S.C. Herbert and A. Berlin, eds., Kelsey Museum of the University of Michigan, University of Assiut Excavations at Coptos (Qift) in Upper Egypt 1987-1992, (portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2003).
Roman Banking
J. Andreau, Banking and Business in the Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
S. Belfiore, Il Periplo del Mare Eritreo di anonimo del I sec. d.C.e altri testi sul commercio fra Roma e l'Oriente attraverso l'Oceano Indiano e la Via della Seta (Rome: Società Geografica italiana, 2004).
L. Casson, The Periplus Maris Erythraei. Text with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).
Nabataeans
G. Markoe, ed., Petra Rediscovered. Lost City of the Nabataeans (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003).
J. Taylor, Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).
Yavanas
H. P. Ray, “The Yavana Presence in Ancient India,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 31 (1988): 311–325.
K. Zvelebil, The Smile of Murugan. On Tamil Literature of South India (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1973).
Ships and Harbor Facilities
S.E. Sidebotham, “Archaeological Evidence for Ships and Harbor Facilities at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt,” in R.L. Hohlfelder, ed., The Maritime World of Ancient Rome. Proceedings of “The Maritime World of Ancient Rome” Conference held at the American Academy in Rome 27–29 March 2003 (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Supplementary Volume VI) (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2008): 305–324.
Personal Names from Berenike
R.S. Bagnall, C. Helms and A.M.F.W. Verhoogt, Documents from Berenike. Volume I. Greek Ostraka from the 1996–1998 Seasons (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 31) (Brussels: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 2000).
R.S. Bagnall, C. Helms, A.M.F.W. Verhoogt, A. Bülow-Jacobsen, A. Cuvigny, and U. Kaplony-Heckl, Documents from Berenike. Volume II. Texts from the 1999–2001 Seasons (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 33) (Brussels: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 2005).
Graffiti in the Eastern Desert
A. Bernand, Pan du désert (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1977).
F. De Romanis, “Graffiti greci da Wādi Menīh al-Hēr. Vestorius tra Coptos e Berenice,” Topoi 6, no. 2 (1996): 731–745.
F. de Romanis, Cassia, Cinnamomo, Ossidiana. Uomini e merci tra Oceano Indiano e Mediterraneo (Saggi de Storia antica 11) (Rome: “L'Erma” di Bretschneider, 1996).
Locations of Ancient Red Sea Ports
G. M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2006): 305–343.
Arabian Caravan Routes
P. Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).
K. Kitchen, “Economics in Ancient Arabia from Alexander to the Augustans,” in Z.A. Archibald, J. Davies, V. Gabrielsen, and G.J. Oliver, eds., Hellenistic Economies (London-New York: Routledge, 2001): 157–173.
M. Maraqten, “Dangerous Trade Routes: On the Plundering of Caravans in the Pre-Islamic Near East,” Aram 8 (1996): 213–236.
F. Millar, “Caravan Cities: The Roman Near East and Long-Distance Trade by Land,” in M. Austin, J. Harries, and C. Smith, eds., Modus Operandi. Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Rickman (London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, 1998): 119–137.
D. Potts, “Trans-Arabian Routes of the Pre-Islamic Period,” in J.-F. Salles, ed., L'Arabie et ses Mers bordiéres. I. Itinéraires et Voisinage (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient No. 16) (Lyon: Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen, 1988): 127–162.
Transport in Roman Egypt
C. Adams, Land Transport in Roman Egypt. A Study of Economics and Administration in a Roman Province (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
D. Peacock and L. Blue, eds., Myos Hormos-Quseir al-Qadim. Roman and Islamic Ports on the Red Sea. Volume 1: Survey and Excavations 1999–2003 (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006).
D. Whitcomb, “Quseir al-Qadim and the Location of Myos Hormos” Topoi 6, no. 2 (1996): 747–772.
D.S. Whitcomb and J.H. Johnson, eds., Quseir al-Qadim 1978 Preliminary Report (Cairo-Princeton, 1979).
D.S. Whitcomb and J.H. Johnson, eds., Quseir al-Qadim 1980 Preliminary Report (American Research Center in Egypt Reports volume 7) (Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1982).
Berenike
R.T.J. Cappers, Roman Foodprints at Berenike Archaeological Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Monograph 55) (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2006).
S.E. Sidebotham, “Late Roman Berenike,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002): 217–240.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt: 1994–1998,” Sahara 10 (1998): 85–86.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt 1999–2001,” Sahara 13 (2001–2002): 23–50.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1995).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1996).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1998).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS, 1999).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden: CNWS, 2000).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1999–2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including Exeavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007).
W.Z. Wendrich, R.S. Tomber, S.E. Sidebotham, J.A. Harrell, R.T.J. Cappers, and R.S. Bagnall, “Berenike Crossroads: The Integration of Information,” Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient 46, no. 1 (2003): 46–87.
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
G. B. Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excauations in Egypt and Nubia (London: John Murray, 1820).
D. Manley and P. Rée, Henry Sail Artist, Traveler, Diplomat, Egyptologist (London: Libri Publications Limited, 2001).
S. Mayes, The Great Belzoni. The Circus Strongman who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasures (London: Taurisparke Paperbacks, 2003).
A. Siliotti, ed., Belzoni's Travels Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia (London: The British Museum Press, 2001).
Vienna Papyrus
S. Belfiore, Il Periplo del Mare Eritreo di anonimo del I sec.d.C.e altri testi sul commercio fra Roma e l'oriente attraverso l'Oceano Indiano e la Via della Seta (Rome: Società Geografica Italiana, 2004): 235–244.
L. Casson, “P. Vindob. 40822 and the Shipping of Goods from India,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 23 (1986): 73–79.
H. Harrauer and P.J. Sijpesteijn, “Ein neues Dokument zu Roms Indienhandel, P. Vindob. G 40822,” Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschafter phil.-hist. K1. 122 (1985): 124–155.
D. Rathbone, “The ‘Muziris’ Papyrus (SB XVIII. 13167): Financing Roman Trade with India,” Bulletin de la Société Archéologique d'Alexandrie 46 (2000): 39–50.
Demography in the Roman Period
W. Scheidel, Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt (Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2001).
Graves and Burials
F.G. Aldsworth, “The Buildings at Shenshef,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS, 1999): 385–418.
F.G. Aldsworth and H. Barnard, “Survey of Hitan Rayan,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1996): 411–440.
F.G. Aldsworth and H. Barnard, “Survey of Shenshef,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1998): 427–443.
H. Barnard, “Human Bones and Burials,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1998): 389–401.
V.A. Maxfield, “The cemetery and adjacent structure,” in D.PS. Peacock and V.A. Maxfield, eds., Survey and Excauation Mons Claudianus 1987–1993. Volume 1: Topography and Quarries (FIFAO 37) (Cairo: IFAO, 1997): 137–138.
D. Peacock and A. Macklin, “The Necropolis and Burials,” in V. Maxfield and D. Peacock, eds., The Roman Imperial Quarries Survey and Excavation at Mons Porphyrites 1994–1998. Volume 1: Topography and Quarries (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2001): 26–36.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS, 1999): 349–369.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalatat (Leiden: CNWS, 2000): 355–377.
S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard, and G. Pyke, “Five Enigmatic Late Roman Settlements in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 88 (2002): 187–225.
S.E. Sidebotham, R.E. Zitterkopf and C.C. Helms, “Survey of the Via Hadriana: The 1998 Season,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 37 (2000): 115–126.
Pollution in Antiquity
J.D. Hughes, Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
James Burton
W.R. Dawson and E.P. Uphill, Who was who in Egyptology (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1995).
J. Thompson, Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1992).
Chapter 9
Gold Mining
J.H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt. Volumes 1–5 (Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001).
A. and A. Castiglioni, and J. Vercoutter, Das Goldland der Pharaonen. Die Entdeckung von Berenike Pancrisia (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1998).
H. Cuvigny, “The Amount of Wages Paid to the Quarry-Workers at Mons Claudianus,” Journal of Roman Studies 86 (1996): 139–145.
J.A, Harrell and V.M. Brown, “The Oldest Surviving Topographical Map from Ancient Egypt: (Turin Papyri 1879, 1899, and 1969),” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 29 (1992): 81–105.
J.A. Harrell and V.M. Brown, “The World's Oldest Surviving Geological Map: The 1150 BC Turin Papyrus from Egypt,” Journal of Geology 100 (1992) : 3–18.
R. Klemm and D.D. Klemm, “Chronologischer Abriβ der antiken Goldgewinnung in der Ostwüste Ägyptens,” Mitteilungen des deutschen Archäologischen lnstituts Abteilung Kairo 50 (1994): 189–222.
D.D. Klemm, R. Klemm, and A. Murr, “Ancient Gold Mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and the Nubian Desert of Sudan,” in R. Friedman, ed., Egypt and Nubia. Gifts of the Desert (London: The British Museum Press, 2002): 215–231.
D. Klemm, R. Klemm, and A. Murr, “Gold of the Pharaohs-6000 years of gold mining in Egypt and Nubia,” Journal of African Earth Sciences 33 (2001) : 643–659.
C. Meyer and L. Heidorn, “Three Seasons at Bîr Umm Fawâkhîr in the Central Eastern Desert,” in O.E. Kaper, ed., Life on the Fringe. Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts during the Roman and early-Byzantine Periods. Proceedings of a Colloquium Held on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo 9–12 December 1996 (Leiden: CNWS, 1998): 197–212.
C. Meyer, L.A. Heidorn, W.E. Kaegi, and T. Wilfong, Bir Umm Fawakhir Survey Project 1993. A Byzantine Gold-Mining Town in Egypt (Oriental Institute Communications no. 28) (Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2001).
F. Millar, “Condemnation to Hard Labour in the Roman Empire, from the Julio-Claudians to Constantine,” Papers of the British School at Rome 52 (1984): 124–147.
R. Shepherd, Ancient Mining (London-New York: Institution of Mining and Metallurgy by Elsevier Applied Science, 1993).
F. H. Thompson, The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Slavery (London: Duckworth/The Society of Antiquaries of London, 2003).
J. Vercoutter, “The Gold of Kush,” Kush 7 (1959): 120–153.
Giovanni Battista Brocchi
G.B. Brocchi, Giornale delle osservazioni fatte ne'viaggi in Egitto, nella Siria e nella Nubia 2 volumes (Bassano: Presso A. Roberti Tip. Ed Editore, 1841).
J-P. Adam, Roman Building Materials and Techniques (London: B.T. Batsford, 1994).
B. Adams, Predynastic Egypt, (Aylesbury: Shire Publications Ltd., 1988).
C.E.P Adams, “Supplying the Roman Army: O. Petr. 245,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 109 (1995): 119–124.
H. Cuvigny, ed., La route de Myos Hormos L'armée romaine dans le désert Oriental d'Égypte (FIFAO 48/1 & 48/2) (Cairo: FIFAO, 2003).
J.A. Harrell, V. M. Brown and M. S. Masoud, “An Early Dynastic Quarry for Stone Vessels at Gebel Manzal al-Seyl, Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 86 (2000): 33–42.
M.A. Hoffman, Egypt Before the Pharaohs (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980).
V. Maxfield and D. Peacock, eds., The Roman Imperial Quarries Survey and Excavation at Mons Porphyrites 1994–1998. Volume 1: Topography and Quarries (London: EES, 2001).
V.A. Maxfield and D.PS. Peacock, eds., Survey and Excavations. Mons Claudianus 1987–1993. Vol. 3: Ceramic vessels and Related Objects from Mons Claudianus (FIFAO 54) (Cairo: IFAO, 2006).
D. Meredith, “Berenice Troglodytica, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 43 (1957): 56–70.
C. Meyer, L.A. Heidorn, W. Kaegi and T. Wilfong, Bir Umm Fawakhir Survey Project 1993: A Byzantine Gold Mining Town in Egypt (Oriental Institute Communication 28) (Chicago: Oriental Institute of Chicago, 2000).
D.P.S. Peacock, V.A. Maxfield, eds., Survey and Excavations Mons Claudianus 1987–1993. Volume 1: Topography & Quarries (FIFAO 37) (Cairo: IFAO,1997).
D. Peacock, L. Blue, eds., Myos Hormos -Quseir al-Qadim. Roman and Islamic Ports on the Red Sea. Volume 1: Survey and Excavations 1999–2003 (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006).
S.E. Sidebotham, “Late Roman Berenike,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002): 217–240.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Newly Discovered Sites in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 82 (1996): 181–192.
S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard and G. Pyke, “Five Enigmatic Late Roman Settlements in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 88 (2002): 187–225.
S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard, J.A. Harrell, and RS. Tomber, “The Roman Quarry and Installations in Wadi Umm Wikala and Wadi Semna,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 87 (2001): 135–170.
S.E. Sidebotham, H.M. Nouwens, A.M. Hense, and J.A. Harrell, “Preliminary Report on Archaeological Fieldwork at Sikait (Eastern Desert of Egypt), and environs: 2002–2003,” Sahara 15 (2004): 7–30.
S.E. Sidebotham, J.A. Riley, H.A. Harnroush, and H. Barakat, “Fieldwork on the Red Sea Coast: The 1987 Season,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 26 (1989): 127–166.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt: 1994–1998,” Sahara 10 (1998): 85–96.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt 1999–2001,” Sahara 13 (2001–2002): 23–50.
G. Webster, “Roman Windows and Grilles,” Antiquity 33 (1959): 10–14.
W.Z. Wendrich, “Fringes are Anchored in Warp and Weft: The Relations between Berenike, Shenshef and the Nile Valley,” in O.E. Kaper, ed., Life on the Fringe Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts during the Roman and early-Byzantine Periods. Proceedings of a Colloquium Held on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo 9–12 December 1996 (Leiden: CNWS, 1998):243–251.
D.S. Whitcomb and j.H, Johnson, eds., Quseir al-Qadim 1980 Preliminary Report (American Research Center in Egypt Reports Vol. 7) (Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1982).
Chapter 11
L. de Bellefonds, L'Etbaye pays habité par les arabes Bicharieh. Géographie, ethnologie, mines d'or (Paris: A Bertrand, 1868).
R.T.J. Cappers, Roman Foodprints at Berenike Archaeological Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Monograph 55) (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2006).
J.J. Hobbs, Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1989).
L. Keimer, “Notes prises chez les Bišarīn et les Nubiens d'Assouan,” Bulletin de l'Instuut d'Égypte, tomes 33–35 (1950–1953) (Cairo: Le Caire Imprimerie de L'Institut d'Égypte, 1952–1954).
C. B. Kiunzinger, Upper Egypt: Its People and Products (London-Glasgow-Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, 1878).
K. Krzywinski and R.H. Pierce, eds., Deserting the Desert a Threatened Cultural Landscape between the Nile and the Sea (Bergen: Department of Botany, Department of Greek, Latin and Egyptology,2001).
G. W. Murray, Sons of Ishmael. A Study of the Egyptian Bedouin (London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1935).
A. Paul, A History of the Beja Tribes of the Sudan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954).
T.C. Skeat, “A Letter from the King of the Blemmyes to the King of the Noubades,” in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 63 (1977): 159–170.
L.A. Tregenza, Egyptian Years (London-New York-Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1958).
L.A. Tregenza, The Red Sea Mountains of Egypt (London-New York-Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1955).
Chapter 12
Amethysts
J.A. Harrell and S.E. Sidebotham, “Wadi Abu Diyeiba: An Amethyst Quarry in Egypt's Eastern Desert,” Minerva 15, no. 6 (November/December 2004): 12–14.
J.A. Harrell, S.E. Sidebotham, S. Marchand, R.S. Bagnall, J.E. Gates and J-L. Rivard, “The Ptolemaic to Early Roman Amethyst Quarry at Abu Diyeiba in Egypt's Eastern Desert,” Bulletin de l'Institut francais de Archeologie Orientale 106(2006): 127–162.
A. Lucas and J.R. Harris, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries, 4th revised ed. (London: Histories and Mysteries of Man Ltd, 1989).
I. Shaw,”Pharaonic Quarrying and Mining: Settlement and Procurement in Egypt's Marginal Regions,” Antiquity 68, no. 258 (1994): 108–119.
I. Shaw, “Wadi el-Hudi,” in K.A. Bard and S.B. Shubert, eds., Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (London-New York: Routledge, 1999): 871–872.
I. Shaw and R. Jameson, “Amethyst Mining in the Eastern Desert: A Preliminary Survey at Wadi el-Hudi,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 79 (1993) : 81–97.
Beryls/Emeralds
B. C. Foster, J.-L. G. Rivard, S.E. Sidebotham and H. Cuvigny, “Survey of the Emerald Mines at Wadi Sikait 2000/2001 Seasons,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007): 304–343.
J.A. Harrell, “Archaeological Geology of the World's First Emerald Mine,” Geoscience Canada 31, no. 2 (June 2004): 69–76.
W.F. Hume, Geology of Egypt. Volume 2: The Fundamental Pre-Cambrian Rocks of Egypt and the Sudan; their Distribution, Age and Character. Part I. The Metamorphic Rocks (Cairo: Government Press, 1934): 109–125.
S.E. Sidebotham, H.M. Nouwens, A.M. Hense and J.A. Harrell, “Preliminary Report on Archaeological Fieldwork at Sikait (Eastern Desert of Egypt), and Environs: 2002–2003,” Sahara 15 (2004): 7–30.
J. Sinkankas, Emerald and Other Beryls (Prescott, Arizona: Geoscience Press, 1989).
Jewelry and Mummy Portraits
E. Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1995).
C. Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt. Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
S. Walker, ed., Ancient Faces. Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Routledge, 1997).
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces. Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt (London: British Museum Press, 1997).
F. Cailliaud, Voyage à I'oasis de Thèbes et dans les déserts situées à I'orient et à I'occident de la Thébaïde fait pendant les années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818 (Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1821).
Chapter 13
K. Krzywinski and R.H. Pierce, eds., Deserting the Desert a Threatened Cultural Landscape between the Nile and the Sea (Bergen: Department of Botany, Department of Greek, Latin, and Egyptology, 2001).
S.E. Sidebotham, “Ptolemaic and Roman Water Resources and their Management in the Eastern Desert of Egypt,” in M. Liverani, ed., Arid Lands in Roman Times. Papers from the International Conference (Rome, July, 9th-10th 2001) (Rome: Edizioni all'Insegna del Giglio, 2003): 87–116.
S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard and G. Pyke, “Five Enigmatic Late Roman Settlements in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 88 (2002): 187–225.
Richard Pococke
R. Pococke, A Description of the East and Some Other Countries (London: Printed for the author, 1743–1745).
Karl Richard Lepsius
W.R. Dawson and E.P. Uphill, Who Was Who in Egyptology (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1995).
R. Lepsius, Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853).
Chapter 14
Berenike
R.S. Bagnall, C. Helms and A.M.F.W. Verhoogt, Documents from Berenike. Volume 1: Greek Ostraka from the 1996–1998 Seasons (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 31) (Brussels: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Égyptologique, 2000).
R.S. Bagnall, C. Helms and A.M.F.W. Verhoogt, Documents from Berenike. Volume 2: Texts from the 1999–2001 Seasons (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 33) (Brussels: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 2005).
R.T.J. Cappers, Roman Foodprints at Berenike. Archaeobotanical Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2006).
S.E. Sidebotham, “Late Roman Berenike,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002): 217–240.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Reflections of Ethnicity in the Red Sea Commerce in Antiquity: Evidence of Trade Goods, Languages and Religions from the Excavations at Berenike,” in P. Lunde and A. Porter, eds., Trade and Travel in the Red Sea Region. Proceedings of Red Sea Project I Held in the British Museum October 2002 (Society for Arabian Studies Monographs no. 2) (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1269) (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series, 2004): 105–115.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1995).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1996).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast)and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1998).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS, 1999).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in wadi Kalalat (Leiden: CNWS, 2000).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1999–2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in wadi Kalalat and Siket and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007).
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt: 1994–1998,” Sahara 10 (1998): 85–96.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red-Sea Coast of Egypt 1999–2001,” Sahara 13 (2001–2002): 23–50.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: Roman Egypt's Maritime Gateway to Arabia and India,” Egyptian Archaeology 8 (1996): 15–18.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike, Roms Tor am Roten Meer nach Arabien und Indien,” Anike Welt 32, no. 3 (2001): 251–263.
S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: A Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Ancient Maritime Spice and Incense Route,” Minerva 13, no. 3 (May/June 2002): 28–31.
W.Z. Wendrich, R.S. Tomber, S.E. Sidebotham, J.A. Harrell, R.T.J. Cappers and R.S. Bagnall, “Berenike Crossroads: The Integration of Information,” Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient 46, no. 1 (2003): 46–87.
Berenike-Nile and Marsa Nahanile Roads
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S.E. Sidebotham, “Caravans Across the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Recent Discoveries on the Berenike-Apollonopolis Magna-Coptos Roads,” in A. Avanzini, ed., Profumi d'Arabia. Atti del Convegno (Saggi di Scoria antica 11) (Rome: “L'Erma” di Bretschneider, 1997):385–393.
S.E. Sidebotham, “From Berenike to Koptos: Recent Results of the Desert Route Survey,” Topoi supplement 3 (2002): 415–438
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Ancient Maps
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Georg August Schuiein furth
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Kush and Nubia
D.A. Welsby, The Kingdom of Kush. The Napatan and Meroitic Empires (London: The British Museum Press, 1996).
D. A. Welsby, The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia. Pagans) Christians and Muslims along the Nile (London: The British Museum Press, 2002).
Blemmyes
R.T. Updegraff, “The Blemmyes I, the Rise of the Blemmyes and the Roman Withdrawal from Nubia Under Diocietian (with Additional Remarks by L. Török),” Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.10.1 (1988):44–106.
Abraq
S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1995):85–101.
S.E. Sidebotham and R.E. Zitterkopf, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1996): 357–409.
F. G. Aldsworth and H. Barnard, “Survey of Hitan Rayan,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike J 995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast)and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1996):411-440.
S.E. Sidebotham. H. Barnard and G. Pyke, “Five Enigmatic Late Roman Settlements in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 88 (2002): 187–225.
Siket
R.S. Bagnall, A. Bülow-Jacobsen and H. Cuvigny, “Security and Water on the Eastern Desert Roads: the Prefect Julius Ursus and the Construction of Praesidia under Vespasian,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (2001): 325–333.
L.A. Pintozzi, “Excavations at the Praesidium et Hydreuma at Siket,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Sihet, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007): 358–367.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden: CNWS, 2000): 355–377.
Small Praesidium in Wadi Kalalat
A.E. Haeckl, “Excavations at the Smaller Praesidium in Wadi Kalalat,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Sihet, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007): 344–357.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1995): 85–101.
Large Praesidium in wadi Kalalat
R.S. Bagnall, “Inscriptions from Wadi Kalalat,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in wadi Kalalat (Leiden: CNWS, 2000): 403–412.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and WZ. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1995):85–101.
S.E. Sidebotham and RE. Zitterkopf, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1996): 357–409.
S.E. Sidebotharn, H. Barnard, D.K. Pearce and AJ Price, “Excavations in Wadi Kalalat,” in S.E. Sidebotham and WZ. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden: CNWS,2000): 379–402.
Shenshef
F.G. Aldsworth,“The Buildingsat Shenshef,” in S.E. Sidebotharn and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS, 1999): 385–418.
F.G. Aldsworth and H. Barnard, “Survey of Shenshef,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1998): 427–443.
R.T.J. Cappers, “The Archaeobotanical Remains from Shenshef,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS; 1999): 419–426.
D.A. Gould, “Excavations at Shenshef,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS, 1999):371–383.
G. W. Murray, “Note on the Ruins of Hitân Shenshef, Near Berenice,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 12 (1926): 166–167.
W.J. Van Neer and A.M.H. Ervynck, “The Faunal Remains from Shenshef and Kalalat,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excauations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS, 1999): 431–444.
S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1995):85–101.
C.E. Vermeeren, “Wood and Charcoal from Shenshef,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavauons at Shenshef (Leiden: CNWS, 1999): 427–429.
Enigmatic/Christian DesertSettlements
O.F.A. Meinardus, Coptic Saints and Pilgrimages (Cairo-New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2002).
O.F.A. Meinardus, Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1999).
S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard and G. Pyke, “Five Enigmatic Late Roman Settlements in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 88 (2002) : 187–225.
T. Power, “The ‘Arabians’ of Pre-Islamic Egypt,” in J. Starkey, P. Starkey, and T. Wilkinson, eds., Natural Resources and CulturaL Connections of the Red Sea (Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 5) (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1661) (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2007): 195–210.
Al-Ileigha
S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: CNWS, 1995): 85–101.
M.C. Bishop and J.C.N. Coulston, Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the fall of Rome (London: B.T. Batsford, 1993).
PrehistoricPeriod
M.A. Hoffman, Egypt Before the Pharaohs. The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1991).
Vladimir Semionovitch Golénischeff
V. Golénischeff, “Une excursion à Bérénice,” Recueil de Travaux relaufs à la philologieet à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes 13 (1890): 75–96.