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At Empire's Edge

Exploring Rome`s Egyptian Frontier

By: Robert B. Jackson

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Hardcover | 31 January 1997 | Edition Number 1

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When Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire in 30 B.C. after the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, its vast and mysterious frontier lands had an important impact on the commerce, politics, and culture of the empire. This engrossing book?part history and part gazetteer?focuses on Rome's Egyptian frontier, describing the ancient fortresses, temples, settlements, quarries, and aqueducts scattered throughout the region and conveying a vivid sense of what life was like for its inhabitants.

Robert B. Jackson has journeyed, by jeep and on foot, to virtually every known Roman site in the area, from Siwa Oasis, forty-five kilometers from the modern Libyan border, to the Sudan. Drawing on both archaeological and historical information, he discusses these sites, explaining how Rome extracted exotic stone and precious metals from the mountains of the Eastern Desert, channeled the wealth of India and East Africa through the desert via ports on the Red Sea, constructed and manned fortresses in the distant oases of the Western Desert, and facilitated the expansion of agricultural communities in the desert that eventually experienced the earliest large-scale conversions to Christianity in Egypt. Elegantly written and illustrated with many handsome photographs, the book will be a treasured resource for archaeologists, classicists, and travelers to the region.

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"A concise and excellent introduction to Rome's Egyptian frontier. Jackson has a remarkable ability to evoke the atmosphere of a site by describing his own experience. The book is easy to read and difficult to put down." Rudolf Winkes, Brown University

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History Asian History Middle Eastern History Earliest Times to Present Day Ancient History to the Year 500 African History Specific Events & Topics in History Colonialism & Imperialism National Liberation & Independence Archaeology

Archaeology by Period & Region Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology European History

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
The Eastern Desert
The Hills of Smoke, Gebel Dokhan	p. 3
Mons Claudianus	p. 35
The Quarry Roads to the Nile	p. 55
Ports on the Red Sea Coast	p. 75
Desert Trade Routes	p. 95
The Upper Nile Valley
The Gateway to Africa: Aswan, Elephantine, and Philae	p. 111
Roman Nubia	p. 129
The Western Desert
Overview of the Western Desert	p. 158
The Great Oasis	p. 163
The Small Oasis	p. 229
Siwa Oasis	p. 241
Abbreviations	p. 261
Notes	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 301
Index	p. 337
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