Bard, K., Fattovich, R. et alii, HARBOUR OF PHARAOHS TO THE LAND OF PUNT (MARSA/WADI GAWASIS REPORT 2007-2008), pp.22-38 (original) (raw)

In 2001 the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (UNO), Naples (Italy), and the Italian Institute for Africa and Orient (IsIAO), Rome, in collaboration with the Boston University (BU) started the investigations at the site of Marsa/Wadi Gawasis on the Red Sea coast, Egypt, under the direction of Rodolfo Fattovich (UNO/IsIAO) and Kathryn Bard (BU). The site is located 23 km to the south of the modern port of Safaga, on the top and along the slopes of a fossil coral terrace, which delimits the lower Wadi Gawasis to the north. The archaeological investigations at Marsa/Wadi Gawasis are part of long-term program, started since the early 1980s, regarding the development of long-distance trade between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, from late prehistoric to early historical times. Actually, Marsa/Wadi Gawasis was already identified in the mid-1970s as the Egyptian port from where seafaring expeditions were sent to the land of Punt in the southern Red Sea in the first part of the 12th Dynasty. After seven seasons conducted by the Italian-American Expedition, our knowledge of Marsa/Wadi Gawasis was considerably enlarged.

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