In Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew
Adam Cobb examines the development of commercial exchange between the …

This book is a revised and enlarged version of my PhD thesis in History (Worlds Apart
Trading Together—the organisation of long-distance trade between the Mediterranean and …

ORBIS allows us to express ancient Roman communication costs in terms of both time and
expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the …

Winner of the 2020 BAJS Book Prize! The book prize initiative was launched by BAJS in
2018 to recognise and promote outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies. In …

Explores the impact of drugs introduced by the Arabs on medieval Mediterranean
medicineFor more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway in the ancient world …

Modern scholarly literature discussing the role of transport in the ancient economy has
traditionally seen a separation between overland transport and maritime transport, and has …

This article examines Roman travel. It seeks to show how deeply travel was woven into the
fabric of the ancient world and how many aspects of the Roman experience relate to it …

The scale of harbour infrastructure is often being assumed to be an index of the economic
importance of Roman Mediterranean ports underwritten by well-organized commercial …

This work tells the story of a community of fourth-century monks living in Egypt. The letters
they wrote and received were found within the covers of works that changed our …

By the fourth/tenth century, Egypt's Nile Delta had just two major Delta branches debouching
directly into the Mediterranean–the Dumyāṭ (Damietta) and Rashīd (Rosetta). Navigational …