Name: At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier (en Inglés)
SKU: 9147475
Price: 1630.90 MXN
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Author: Robert B. Jackson
ISBN: 9780300088564

portada At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier (en Inglés)

At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Yale Univ Pr

Autor

Robert B. Jackson

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0300088566

ISBN13

9780300088564

N° edición

Categorías

C. 2686-c. 323 a. e. c. (período del antiguo egipto)
Historia antigua
Historia de oriente próximo

At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier (en Inglés)

Robert B. Jackson (Autor) · Yale Univ Pr · Tapa Dura

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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.