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Roads from Bahariya to Faiyum: A Study in Remotely Sensed Data

    Valentina Gasperini, Hannah Pethen

Ägypten und Levante 28, pp. 181-198, 2019/02/26

Internationale Zeitschrift für ägyptische Archäologie und deren Nachbargebiete
International Journal for Egyptian Archaeology and Related Disciplines

doi: 10.1553/AEundL28s181

doi: 10.1553/AEundL28s181


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doi:10.1553/AEundL28



doi:10.1553/AEundL28s181



doi:10.1553/AEundL28s181

Abstract

This paper focuses on the probable land route between the Faiyum region and Bahariya Oasis during the Pharaonic period. Literary, archaeological and remote sensing data are analysed and discussed in this study. The possible ancient termini of this route are also taken into account in order to shed new light on trade connections in so far scarcely explored sectors of the Egyptian Western Desert.

Keywords: Remote sensing; Desert Archaeology; Desert trade routes; Faiyum; Bahariya Oasis; Gurob; Medinet Maadi; Western Desert amphorae