Paper Authors and Titles

Paper Titles

“Practical aspects of journeys in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (18th-20th c. AD): a   contribution of western travellers' and early scholars' accounts”

Maël Crépy  (Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques, CNRS; ERC Desert Networks Project, CNRS)

“Where to Sit Down in the Desert: Landscape-driven analysis of Eastern Desert networks”

Laurel Darcy Hackley (ERC Desert Networks Project, CNRS; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

“Ptolemaic Elephantry: the Military Roots of Red Sea Trade”

Ryan Reynolds  (University of California, Berkeley)                                                                                                                   

 “How many camels does it take to unload a ship? The Hermapollon again, from a camel perspective”

Katia Schörle (Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CCJ, Aix-en-Provence, France

Centre Camille Jullian)

“Gems in Roman Egypt: Pliny's Vision”

Jordi Pérez González

“The Qasr Ibrim Loxodontaphoros: elephant imagery between Egypt and Sudan”

T. O. Moller (Ancient World Research Cluster, Wolfson College Oxford)

“South Asian finds from Berenike, a Ptolemaic-Roman port on Egypt’s Red Sea Shore”

Steven Sidebotham (University of Delaware Newark), Roberta S. Tomber (British Museum)

“Work and Private Life: The Small Objects from the Ptolemaic-Roman Sites of the Eastern Desert”

Mariola Hepa (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich; French Archaeological Mission of the Eastern Desert)

“The economy of the Blemmyes, or how to make wealth as a nomad? Notes on the indigenous economies of the Eastern Desert”

Julien Cooper (Research Centre for History and Culture, Beijing Normal University & UIC)

“Feeding human beings and animals in the desert: food and water supply according to the Greek ostraca of Bi'r Samût (3rd cent. BC)”

Laura Aguer (Collège doctoral [Sorbonne universités] Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV; ERC Desert Networks Project, CNRS)

“Soldiers, monks and porphyry: Late Roman connexions and materiality of Deir el-Atrash fortlet in the north Eastern Desert”

Julie Marchand (Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques, CNRS, UMR 5189; French Archaeological Mission of the Eastern Desert)

“Roman Money and the Christian Desert”

Despina Iosif  (Hellenic Open University, Patras)

“Amethyst and other mined minerals at Wadi el-Hudi in the Roman Period”

Kate Liszka (California State University San Bernardino), Bryan Kraemer (California State University San Bernardino), Meredith Brand (American University in Cairo)

“Quantifying emerald production: mining in the Smaragdus region during Antiquity”

Joan Oller Guzmán (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Sergio García-Dils De La Vega, David Fernández Abella, Vanesa Trevín Pita