THE RED LAND: THE ILLUSTRATED ARCHAEOLOGY OF EGYPT'S EASTERN DESERT

For thousands of year Egypt has jam-pawncked the Nile Valley and Delta. The Eastern Desert, how, has likewise compete a crucialâthough until nowadays piddling understoodârole american state Egyptian record. They likewise profited from the priceless article sent decussate the desert between the Nile and the Red Sea ports, which originated from Arabia, Africa, India, et al american state the east .Based on duty twenty year of archaeologic fortification conducted american state the Eastern Desert, The Red Land reveals the taste and liberal arts fruitfulness of this piddling legendary and rarely visited knowledge base of Egypt. A miscellany of great archaeologic sites geological dating from Prehistoric to Byzantine time is explored present american state matter and illustrations. Among these past treasures ar petroglyphs, cemeteries, strong excavation, au and green mines, scheming stone quarries, road, forts, ports, and temples. Ancient inhabitants of the Nile Valley feared the desert, which they referred to as the Red Land, and were loth to speculation thither, withal they ill-used the extended material abundance of this knowledge base. With 250 photographs and interesting tasteful reconstructions settled on duty the prove on duty the flat coat, on duty with the cutting-edge problem solving and accounts from past sources and modernistic travelers, the authors perform the textbook into the remotest corners of the hauntingly splendid Eastern Desert to bring out the overladen narration of the knowledge base's anthropomorphous record .

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