Product Description: The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean...read more

Product Description: Excavations at Berenike, a Greco-Roman harbor on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, have provided extensive evidence for trade with India, South-Arabia and sub-Saharan Africa. The results of the 1999 and 2000 excavations by the joint mission of the University of Delaware, Leiden University, and UCLA, have been published in a comprehensive report, with specialists' analyses of different object groups and an overview of evidence for the trade route from the Indian perspective...read more

Product Description: The second volume of reports from the Caesarea Ancient Harbour Excavation Project 1980-85 catalogues and analyzes the finds recovered in this period, and the 1st century AD Roman ship excavated close to shore north of the city. To combat the problems of post-depositional sorting in a coastal underwater context seven closed deposits are presented separately from the typological artefact catalogues...read more