Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route (California World History Library) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today's Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. This title uncovers the role the city played in the regional, local, and 'global' economies during the eight centuries of its existence.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 01 March 2011
- Format: Hardback 456 pages
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- Categories: Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780520244306 ISBN 10: 0520244303
- Sales rank: 695,932
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Full description for Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route
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. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today's Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. In this book, Steven E. Sidebotham, the archaeologist who excavated Berenike, uncovers the role the city played in the regional, local, and 'global' economies during the eight centuries of its existence. Sidebotham analyzes many of the artifacts, botanical and faunal remains, and hundreds of the texts he and his team found in excavations, providing a profoundly intimate glimpse of the people who lived, worked, and died in this emporium between the classical Mediterranean world and Asia.
