Bir Umm Fawakhir 3: Excavations 1999-2001

by Carol Meyer, Salima Ikram, Lisa A. Heidorn

Bir Umm Fawakhir 3 is the last of the final reports on the archaeological surveys and excavations at the Byzantine site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt; it remains the only intensively studied ancient Egyptian gold-mining operation, and one of very few completely mapped towns of the era. Along with other recent excavations and surveys, it demonstrates the Byzantine empire's continuing activities in the Eastern Desert, not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614910200
• ISBN13: 9781614910206
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
• Length: 172 Pages