Travelling the Korosko Road Welsby Derek A.
Travelling the Korosko Road Welsby Derek A. This volume publishes accounts of archaeological exploration carried out during the last 30 years or so in the Sudanese Eastern Desert. The first and…
Specifikacia Travelling the Korosko Road Welsby Derek A.
Travelling the Korosko Road Welsby Derek A.
This volume publishes accounts of archaeological exploration carried out during the last 30 years or so in the Sudanese Eastern Desert. The first and foremost covers results from the work of the Centro Ricerche sul Deserto Orientale (CeRDO), which is based at Varese in northern Italy. It is divided into two related parts.
They encountered in the process a rich archaeological landscape, hundreds of previously undocumented sites, many frequented over millennia, prominent among them gold-production areas and their associated settlements. Between 1989 and 2006, CeRDO, directed by the brothers Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni, ran a pioneering programme of expeditions, which traversed the so-called 'Korosko Road' (the main desert route connecting Egypt and Sudan) and followed multiple other tracks throughout the Eastern Desert. The CeRDO record, the photographic database, the material