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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