“Desert Networks” is a scientific research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC-2017-STG, Proposal number 759078) for five years (2017/11 to 2022/10). It is hosted by the HiSoMA research center at Lyon (CNRS), member of the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, with a dozen researchers and engineers directly involved in the project and many collaborations with other colleagues and institutions, starting with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The project focuses on the physical, economic and social networks that have linked the Egyptian Eastern Desert and have enabled people to survive in a hostile environment and to exploit its resources for almost two millennia, from the mid-second millennium BC until the late third-early fourth century AD ...

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