Seafaring Expeditions to Punt in the Middle Kingdom (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East) (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 96) - Hardcover

Kathryn Bard; Rodolfo Fattovich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004368507 ISBN 13: 9789004368507

Publisher: Brill, 2018

Synopsis

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 this title

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.

Review:

"[There] is no shortage of analysis relating to the Punt expeditions, much of which is likely to become the new 'standard' account of these voyages and of the huge logistical and ideological undertaking they represented. The volume will therefore be of immense value to scholars and students of ancient Egypt, and of ancient seafaring more generally." -Julian Whitewright, University of Southampton, The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 48.2 (2019).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 9004368507
• ISBN 13: 9789004368507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252