Marsa Gawasis (Wadi Gawasis) and the Egyptian Seafaring Expeditions to Punt | ||
| أبجديات | ||
| Article 3, Volume 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 37-43 PDF (141.21 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/abgad.2016.55741 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Rodolfo Fattovich1; Kathryne Bard2 | ||
| 1Università di Napoli “l’Orientale”, Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi, Napoli, Italia | ||
| 2University of Boston, USA | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In 1976, during the First International Conference of Egyptology in Cairo, I had the privilege to listen to Abdel Moneim A.H. Sayed (University of Alexandria, Egypt) announcing his discovery of a Middle Kingdom port at Wadi Gawasis on the Red Sea coast, and was fascinated by the evidence of a possible Egyptian navigation to Punt in the early 2nd millennium BCE he was collecting. At that time, I was just beginning my personal investigation in the northern Horn of Africa and the Egyptian trade with this Punt was already emerging in my mind as a crucial problem to understand better the social and economic development in the regions facing the southern Red Sea. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| مرسى جواسيس; وادي جواسيس- بعثات الملاحة البحرية المصرية; بلاد بونت | ||
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