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The Port of Berenike Troglodytica on the Red Sea: a landscape-based approach to the study of its harbour and its role in Indo-Mediterranean trade
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The port site of Berenike Troglodytica - located on the Egyptian Red Sea coast - served the spice and incense routes that linked the Mediterranean World (specifically the Roman Empire) to India, Southern Arabia and East Africa. In the Greco-Roman period the site was at the cutting edge of what was then the embryonic global economy, ideally situated as a key node connecting Indian Ocean and Mediterranean trade for almost 800 years. It is now located in an arid, marginal, hostile en...
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+ Wilson, A
- Department:
- The Univerisity of Oxford
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Robinson, D
- Department:
- The University of Oxford
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Gosden, C
- Department:
- The University of Oxford
- Role:
- Examiner
+ Blue, L
- Department:
- University of Southampton
- Role:
- Examiner
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2018-02-17
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- Copyright holder:
- Kotarba-Morley, A
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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