The Harbor of Khufu on the Red Sea Coast at Wadi Al-Jarf, Egypt

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4587322
AutoresPierre Tallet, Gregory Marouard
Ano2014
Volume77
Fascículo1
Páginas4-14
Data de publicação2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNear Eastern Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1094-2076 • E-ISSN: 1557-5594
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5615/neareastarch.77.1.0004
OpenAlexW2488066359
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas1

In 2011, a team from the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the IFAO discovered an important harbor complex from the Old Kingdom at Wadi al-Jarf. Located along the Egyptian shore of the Red Sea, this strategic anchorage was used as a departure point to the Sinai Peninsula for royal expeditions to the copper and turquoise mining areas located on the opposite side of the Gulf of Suez. The site was exclusively occupied during the beginning of the 4th Dynasty and it can now be considered the oldest harbor in the world. In 2013 the discovery of several dozen fragments of papyrus, the oldest inscribed papyri ever unearthed in Egypt, confirmed the early date of this site and revealed a final closure of this installation at the end of the reign of Khufu

Ancient history · Archaeology · Dozen · Geography · Inscribed figure · Peninsula · Reign · Shore · Wadi · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Geology · Oceanography