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Travelling the Korosko Road. Archaeological Exploration in Sudan’s Eastern Desert, edited by W. Vivian Davies and Derek A. Welsby

Travelling the Korosko Road. Archaeological Exploration in Sudan’s Eastern Desert, edited by W.... W. Vivian Davies and Derek A. Welsby (eds.), Travelling the Korosko Road. Archaeological Exploration in Sudan’s Eastern Desert. Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing, 2020, 220 pp., ISBN 978-1-78969-803-9.This volume reports the results of two different research projects, which have in common a research area in the Nubian desert around the route leading from Korosko to Abu Hamed and a research interest in the historic use of this route. The volume is divided into two coherent parts. Part I reports the results of the Centro Ricerche sul Deserto Orientale (CeRDO) expeditions directed by Angelo Castiglioni and the late Alfredo Castiglioni, which were carried out between 1989 and 2006. Part II reports the results of the subsequent Korosko Road Project conducted in November and December 2013 by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society (SARS) and the British Museum, directed by W. Vivian Davies and Derek A. Welsby. The so-called Korosko road was widely estimated to be one of the major communication routes between Lower Nubia and the region of the Middle Nile, avoiding at least three of the large cataracts of the Nile. Several resources located in the eastern desert regions of Nubia, especially gold mines, were also exploited via a road network developed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Archaeology Brill

Travelling the Korosko Road. Archaeological Exploration in Sudan’s Eastern Desert, edited by W. Vivian Davies and Derek A. Welsby

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Journal of African Archaeology , Volume 19 (2): 3 – Jun 18, 2021
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W. Vivian Davies and Derek A. Welsby (eds.), Travelling the Korosko Road. Archaeological Exploration in Sudan’s Eastern Desert. Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing, 2020, 220 pp., ISBN 978-1-78969-803-9.This volume reports the results of two different research projects, which have in common a research area in the Nubian desert around the route leading from Korosko to Abu Hamed and a research interest in the historic use of this route. The volume is divided into two coherent parts. Part I reports the results of the Centro Ricerche sul Deserto Orientale (CeRDO) expeditions directed by Angelo Castiglioni and the late Alfredo Castiglioni, which were carried out between 1989 and 2006. Part II reports the results of the subsequent Korosko Road Project conducted in November and December 2013 by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society (SARS) and the British Museum, directed by W. Vivian Davies and Derek A. Welsby. The so-called Korosko road was widely estimated to be one of the major communication routes between Lower Nubia and the region of the Middle Nile, avoiding at least three of the large cataracts of the Nile. Several resources located in the eastern desert regions of Nubia, especially gold mines, were also exploited via a road network developed

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