Steven E. Sidebotham, Jennifer Gates-Foster, Jean-Louis Rivard, The archaeological survey of the desert roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley: expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987-2015. Archeological reports, number 26. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018. Pp. xxi, 480. ISBN 9780897571098

Review by Louise Blanke, University of Edinburgh. louise.blanke@ed.ac.uk

Egypt’s Eastern Desert is characterised by a harsh landscape with limited water resources, but it is also rich in minerals, gems and building stone, and it contains the routes that facilitated the lucrative trading networks that connected the Mediterranean world with the Indian Ocean, south Arabia, and sub-Saharan Africa. This book constitutes the final publication of two independent archaeological survey projects of the busy roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley (Apollinopolis Magna (Edfu) in the south, and Koptos in the north).

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