Fish and Fishing in Ancient Egypt

by Douglas J. Brewer and Renee Friedman

Facsimile reissue of 1989 comprehensive study of the exploitation of fish resources in Ancient Egypt.

The River Nile is the source of Egypt's productive fisheries and agricultural fertility today as it was in ancient times. Before the construction of the Aswan Dam the Nile was a seasonally flooded river plain with rich fertile soils deposited annually creating a slightly convex profile and riverside levees with lower areas stretching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CPKXGCPV
• ISBN13: 9798888571309
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 122 Pages