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Curriculum Vitae
Steven Edward Sidebotham
Work address: Department of History
University of Delaware
230 John Munroe Hall
Newark, Delaware 19716-2547 USA
Home address: 306 East Park Place
Newark, Delaware 19711 USA
Phone: (302) 533-5606
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (302) 831-2371/0806
Fax: (302) 831-1538
Citizenship: USA
Education
Undergraduate
1969-1971, American University in Cairo, Egypt
1971, Pierce College, Athens, Greece
1971, University of Maryland overseas branch, Athens, Greece
1971-1972, College Year in Athens, Greece
1972-1974 BA Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate
1977, MA Classical Art & Archaeology, University of Michigan
1977, MA (Ancient) History, University of Michigan
1981, PhD (Ancient) History, University of Michigan
Languages
Egyptian colloquial Arabic, speak (well)
Ancient Greek, read
Latin, read
Italian, read, speak (fair)
Spanish, read, speak (fair)
French, read, speak (some)
German, read, speak (some)
Employment
1981-1986, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware
1986-1996, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware
1996-present, Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware
Honors, Awards & Fellowships 1) Research Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, Pondicherry-Arikamedu, India,
December 1989-February 1990.
2) Research Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, Pondicherry-Arikamedu, India,
December 1990-February 1991.
3) Research Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, Pondicherry-Arikamedu, India,
December 1991-February 1992.
4) Fellowship in the Center for Advanced Study, University of Delaware for academic year
1999-2000.
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5) Visiting Scholar at Edith Cowen University, Mount Lawley, 2 Bradfrod Street Mount
Lawley, Western Australia 6050, Australia, December 2006.
6) Nominated for Field Discovery Award, Shanghai Archaeology Forum (Institute of
Archaeology Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) for research “Excavations at Berenike,
a Roman Port/City on the Red Sea,” September 2015.
7) Luxor Times Egyptology Awards 2016 “The mission's finds at the site in Berenike” is on
the list as one of the top 10 discoveries of 2015. Awards ceremony attended by Berenike
co-director I. Zych in Luxor, Egypt, February 2016.
Publications
Books and monographs
Analytical books
1) S.E. Sidebotham, Roman Economic Policy in the Erythra Thalassa 30 B.C.-A.D. 217
(Mnemosyne supplement no. 91) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986).
2) S.E. Sidebotham, A.M. Hense and H.M. Nouwens, The Red Land. The Illustrated
Archaeology of Egypt’s Eastern Desert (Cairo-New York: American University in Cairo
Press, 2008); e-book edition published 2008.
3) S.E. Sidebotham, Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route (Berkeley-Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 2011); paperback edition published 2019.
4) Steven E. Sidebotham, Jennifer Gates-Foster and Jean-Louis Rivard, eds., contributors,
The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley:
Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern
Desert of Egypt, 1987-2015 (American Schools of Oriental Research-Archaeological
Reports 26) (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019).
Volumes containing archaeological field reports
5) With J.P. Oleson, et al., The Harbours of Caesarea Maritima: Results of the Caesarea
Ancient Harbour Excavation Project, 1980-1985 Vol. II: The Finds and the Ship in J.P.
Oleson, ed., Tempus Reparatum, British Archaeological Reports international series 594
(Center for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa Publication No. 5) (Oxford: Tempus
Reparatum, 1994).
6) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1994. Preliminary
Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the
Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1995).
7) With V. Begley, et al., The Ancient Port of Arikamedu: New Excavations and Researches
1989-1992 Volume One (Mémoires Archéologiques 22) (Pondicherry, India: École
française d'Extrême-Orient, 1996).
8) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1995. Preliminary
Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the
Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1996).
9) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996
Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert
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(Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1998).
10) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997
Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including
Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1999).
11) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998
Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including
Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 2000).
12) S.E. Sidebotham and W. Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1999/2000. Report on
the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the
Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology,
2007).
13) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, eds., contributors, Berenike 2008-2009. Report on the
Excavations at Berenike, including a survey in the Eastern Desert (Warsaw: Polish Centre
of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 2011).
14) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, eds., contributors, Berenike 2010–2011. Report on Two
Seasons of Excavations at Berenike, Including Survey in the Eastern Desert and Reports on
Earlier Work [Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology Excavation Series 4] (Warsaw:
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Warsaw): forthcoming in 2019.
15) J.-P. Brun, T. Faucher, B. Redon and S. Sidebotham, eds., The Eastern Desert of Egypt
during the Greco-Roman Period: Archaeological Reports (Paris OpenEdition Books: 14
September 2018 Serie: Institut des civilisations Electronic ISBN: 9782722604889).
World War II
16) J.J. Hurt and S.E. Sidebotham, eds., Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard
M. Mason, hard back edition (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press/Rowman &
Littlefield, 2014); paperback edition: 2016.
Articles, Book Chapters, Dictionary, Atlas and Encyclopedia Entries
Articles/book chapters/dictionary & encyclopedia entries/atlas entries (analytical and synthetic)
1) S.E. Sidebotham, “Herodotus on Artemisium,” The Classical World 75,3 (1982): 177-186.
2) S.E. Sidebotham, “Aelius Gallus and Arabia,” Latomus 45,3 (1986): 590-602.
3) S.E. Sidebotham, “Ports of the Red Sea and the Arabia-India Trade,” Münstersche Beiträge
zur antiken Handelsgeschichte 5,2 (1986): 16-36.
4) S.E. Sidebotham, “Ports of the Red Sea and the Arabia-India Trade,” in T. Fahd, ed.,
L'Arabie préislamique et son Environnement historique et culturel. Actes du Colloque de
Strasbourg 24-27 juin 1987 (Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg Travaux du
Centre de recherché sur le Proche-Orient et la Grèce antiques Vol. 10) (Leiden: E.J. Brill,
1989): 195-223.
5) S.E. Sidebotham, “A Limes in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Myth or Reality?,” in V.A.
Maxfield and M.J. Dobson, eds., Roman Frontier Studies 1989. Proceedings of the XVth
International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Exeter: University of Exeter Press,
1991): 494-497.
6) S.E. Sidebotham, “Ports of the Red Sea and the Arabia-India Trade,” in D.H. French and
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C.S. Lightfoot, eds., The Eastern Frontier of the Roman Empire. Proceedings of a
Colloquium Held at Ankara in September 1988. (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Monograph no. 11) (British Archaeological Reports, International Series no. 553 ii)
(Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 1989): 485-513.
7) S.E. Sidebotham, “Ports of the Red Sea and the Arabia-India Trade,” in V. Begley and R.
DePuma, eds., Rome and India: The Ancient Sea Trade (Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1991): 12-38.
8) S.E. Sidebotham, “Roman Interests in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean,” in J. Reade, ed., The
Indian Ocean in Antiquity (London: Kegan Paul International-The British Museum, 1996):
287-308.
9) S.E. Sidebotham, “Overview of Archaeological Work in the Eastern Desert and Along the
Red Sea Coast of Egypt by the University of Delaware-Leiden University, 1987-1995,”
Topoi 6,2 (1996): 773-783.
10) S.E. Sidebotham, “Romans and Arabs in the Red Sea,” Topoi 6,2 (1996): 785-797.
11) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Roman Frontier in the Eastern Desert of Egypt,” in W. Groenman-
van Waateringe, B.L. van Beek, W.J.H. Willems and S.L. Wynia, eds., Roman Frontier
Studies 1995. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies
(Oxbow Monograph 91) (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1997): 503-509.
12) S.E. Sidebotham, “Caravans Across the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Recent Discoveries on the
Berenike-Apollinopolis Magna-Coptos Roads,” in A. Avanzini, ed., I Profumi d'Arabia Atti
del Convegno (Saggi di Storia antica 11) (Rome: Bretschneider, 1997): 385-393.
13) S.E. Sidebotham, “Berenike, Trade and the Military: Investigations at a Red Sea Port in
Egypt,” in N. Gudea, ed., Roman Frontier Studies 1997. Proceedings of the XVIIth
International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Zalau, Romania: Porolissum, 1999):
251-257.
14) S.E. Sidebotham, “'Abu Sha'ar,” in K.A. Bard, ed., Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of
Ancient Egypt (London-NY: Routledge, 1999): 84-87.
15) S.E. Sidebotham, “Berenike,” in K.A. Bard, ed., Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of
Ancient Egypt (London-NY: Routledge, 1999): 170-172.
16) S.E. Sidebotham, “Roman Forts in Egypt,” in K.A. Bard, ed., Encyclopedia of the
Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (London-NY: Routledge, 1999): 682-684.
17) S.E. Sidebotham, “Roman Ports, Red Sea,” in K.A. Bard, ed., Encyclopedia of the
Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (London-NY: Routledge, 1999): 684-686.
18) S.E. Sidebotham, “Map sheet nos. 78 and 80” (assisted on map sheet nos. 75-77, 81) for
R.J.A. Talbert, et al., eds., Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2000) & Map-by-Map Directory, vol. II (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2000): Map 78 (pp. 1158-1163), Map 80 (pp. 1170-1180).
19) S.E. Sidebotham, “Forward,” to L.M. Medwid, The Makers of Classical Archaeology. A
Reference Work (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2000): 9-11.
20) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Roman empire's southeastern-most frontier; recent discoveries at
Berenike and environs (Eastern Desert of Egypt) 1998-2000,” in P. Freeman, J. Bennett,
Z.T. Fiema and B. Hoffmann, eds. Limes XVIII. Proceedings of the XVIIIth International
Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000) (BAR
International Series 1084(I) (Oxford: BAR, 2002): 361-378.
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21) S.E. Sidebotham, “Ptolemaic and Roman water resources and their management in the
Eastern Desert of Egypt,” in M. Liverani, ed., Arid Lands in Roman Times. Papers from the
International Conference (Rome, July 9th-10th, 2001) (Rome: Edizioni all’Insegna del
Giglio, 2003): 87-116.
22) With D.F. Graf, “Nabataean Trade,” in G. Markoe, ed., Petra Rediscovered. Lost City of
the Nabataeans (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003): 65-73.
23) With W.Z. Wendrich, et al., “Berenike Crossroads: The Integration of Information,”
Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient 46,1 (2003): 46-87.
24) S.E. Sidebotham, “Reflections of Ethnicity in the Red Sea Commerce in Antiquity:
Evidence of Trade Goods, Languages and Religions from the Excavations at Berenike (Red
Sea Coast), Egypt,” in P. Lunde and A. Porter, eds., Trade and Travel in the Red Sea
Region (British Archaeological Reports, international series vol. 1269)(Oxford: BAR,
2004): 105-115.
25) With W.Z. Wendrich, R.S. Bagnall, R.T.J. Cappers, J.A. Harrell and R.S. Tomber,
“Berenike Crossroads The Integration of Information,” in N. Yoffee and B.L. Crowell,
eds., Excavating Asian History. Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History
(Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2006): 15-66.
26) S.E. Sidebotham, “Contacts Between the Kerala Coast of India and Early Roman Ports on
the Red Sea Coast of Egypt,” AdhAram 1 (2006): 60-67.
27) S.E. Sidebotham, “Archaeological Evidence for Ships and Harbor Facilities at Berenike
(Red Sea Coast), Egypt,” in R.L. Hohlfelder, ed., The Maritime World of Ancient Rome
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008): 305-324.
28) S.E. Sidebotham, “South Asian Archaeological Finds from Berenike, a Hellenistic-Roman Port
on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt. The Background,” in E.M. Raven, ed., South Asian
Archaeology 1999. Proceedings of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists,
held at the Universiteit Leiden 5-9 July 1999 (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2008): 223-228.
29) S.E. Sidebotham, “Northern Red Sea ports and their networks in the late Roman/Byzantine
period,” in M.M. Mango, ed., Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th centuries. The archaeology of local,
regional and international exchange. Papers of the Thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of
Byzantine Studies, St. John’s College, University of Oxford, March 2004 (Society for the
Promotion of Byzantine Studies 14) (Abington, Oxon: Ashgate, 2009): 329-352.
30) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the Age of the Great Empires,” in
D.T. Potts, ed., A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Volume II
(Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012): 1041-1059.
31) S.E. Sidebotham, “Berenike” in R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine and S.
Huebner, eds., The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell,
2013): 1092-1093.
32) S.E. Sidebotham, “Eastern Desert,” in R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine
and S. Huebner, eds., The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-
Blackwell, 2013): 2254-2255.
33) S.E. Sidebotham, “Forward,” to F. Förster and H. Riemer, eds., Desert Road Archaeology
in Ancient Egypt and Beyond (Africa Praehistorica 26) (Köln: Heinrich-Barth-Institut,
2013): 12-13.
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34) S.E. Sidebotham, “Berenike, Archaeology of,” in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
(Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer Science + Media, 2014): 850-857.
35) S.E. Sidebotham, “Religion and Burial at the Ptolemaic-Roman Red Sea Emporium of
Berenike, Egypt,” African Archaeology Review 31,4 (2014): 599-635.
36) S.E. Sidebotham, “Roman Ports on the Red Sea and their Contacts with Africa, Arabia and
South Asia: Ancient Literary and Recent Archaeological Evidence,” in K.S. Mathew, ed.,
Imperial Rome, Indian Ocean Regions and Muziris. New Perspectives on Maritime Trade
(New Delhi: Manohar Press, 2015): 129-177.
37) S.E. Sidebotham "Berenike, Archaeology of," in C. Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of Global
Archaeology [online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_133-2 (2018)].
38) S.E. Sidebotham, “Overview of Fieldwork at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, and in the
Eastern Desert: 2011-2015,” in A. Manzo, C. Zazzaro and D.J. de Falco, eds., Stories of
Globalisation: The Red Sea and Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity.
Selected Papers of Red Sea VII (Brill: Leiden, 2019): 183-224.
39) S.E. Sidebotham with contributions by J. Gates-Foster, “Introduction,” in Steven E.
Sidebotham, Jennifer Gates-Foster and Jean-Louis Rivard, eds., contributors, The
Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley:
Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern
Desert of Egypt, 1988-2015 (American Schools of Oriental Research-Archaeological
Reports 26) (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019): 1-49.
40) S.E. Sidebotham and Henry Wright, with contributions by Jennifer Gates-Foster, Roberta
Tomber, Jean-Louis Rivard, “Gazetteer of Sites,” in Steven E. Sidebotham, Jennifer Gates-
Foster and Jean-Louis Rivard, eds., contributors, The Archaeological Survey of the Desert
Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley: Expeditions by the University of Michigan
and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1988-2015 (American
Schools of Oriental Research-Archaeological Reports 26) (Boston: American Schools of
Oriental Research, 2019): 73-285.
Archaeological field reports or specialist reports
41) S.E. Sidebotham, “Lamps from Carthage in the Kelsey Museum,” Excavations at Carthage
1975 Conducted by the University of Michigan, Vol. 2 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of MI
Press, 1978): 217-238.
42) S.E. Sidebotham, “Roof Tiles and Terra Sigillata Stamps from Lucania,” Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik 39 (1980): 239-248.
43) S.E. Sidebotham, “Roman Lamps,” in D.S. Whitcomb and J.H. Johnson, eds., Quseir al-
Qadim 1980 Preliminary Report (American Research Center in Egypt Reports Vol. 7)
(Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1982): 243-256.
44) S.E. Sidebotham, “Terra-Sigillata Stamps,” in D.S. Whitcomb and J.H. Johnson, eds.,
Quseir al-Qadim 1980 Preliminary Report (American Research Center in Egypt Reports
Vol. 7) (Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1982): 257-261.
45) S.E. Sidebotham, Entries in K.G. Holum, et al., eds., King Herod's Dream: Caesarea on
the Sea (NY-London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988): in paperback edition only “Catalogue of
the Exhibition.”
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46) With R.E. Zitterkopf, “Stations and Towers on the Quseir-Nile Road,” Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 75 (1989): 155-189.
47) S.E. Sidebotham, J.A. Riley, H.A. Hamroush and H. Barakat, “Fieldwork on the Red Sea
Coast: The 1987 Season,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 26 (1989):
127-166.
48) S.E. Sidebotham, “Ship Graffiti from Mons Porphyrites,” Bulletin de l'Institut français
d'Archéologie Orientale 90 (1990): 339-345.
49) S.E. Sidebotham, R.E. Zitterkopf and J.A. Riley, “Survey of the 'Abu Sha'ar-Nile Road,”
The American Journal of Archaeology 95,4 (1991): 571-622.
50) S.E. Sidebotham, “University of Delaware Archaeological Project at 'Abu Sha'ar, The 1990
Season,” American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter 153 (spring, 1991): 1-6.
51) S.E. Sidebotham, “Red Sea Trade,” in D.N. Freeman, editor-in-chief, The Anchor Bible
Dictionary Vol. 5 (NY: Doubleday, 1992): 642-644.
52) S.E. Sidebotham, “Trade and Commerce (Roman),” in D.N. Freeman, editor-in-chief, The
Anchor Bible Dictionary Vol. 6 (NY: Doubleday, 1992): 629-633.
53) S.E. Sidebotham, “The 1991 Season of Archaeological Fieldwork at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea
Coast), Egypt Conducted by the University of Delaware,” Archaeological News 17, 1-4
(1992): 31-34 & Plates 15-18.
54) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Roman Army on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt,” Worldwide 2,1
(University of Delaware publication) (winter/spring 1992): 22-24.
55) S.E. Sidebotham, “University of Delaware Archaeological Project at 'Abu Sha'ar: The 1992
Season,” American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter 161/162 (spring/summer 1993):
1-9.
56) S.E. Sidebotham, “Preliminary Report on the 1990-1991 Seasons of Fieldwork at 'Abu
Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast),” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 31 (1994):
133-158.
57) S.E. Sidebotham “University of Delaware Fieldwork in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1993,”
Dumbarton Oaks Papers 48 (1994): 263-275.
58) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Introduction,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z.
Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations
at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre
of Non-Western Studies, 1995): 1-3.
59) S.E. Sidebotham, “Historical Sources,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike
(Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-
Western Studies, 1995): 4-11.
60) With F.G. Aldsworth and W.Z. Wendrich, “The Town Site: Survey, Plan and Description,”
in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1994. Preliminary
Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the
Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1995): 13-20.
61) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Excavations,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike
(Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-
Western Studies, 1995): 21-27.
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62) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Coins,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors,
Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea
Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies,
1995): 47-48.
63) S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the 1994 Excavations at Berenike
(Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-
Western Studies, 1995): 85-101.
64) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Interpretative Summary and Conclusion,” in S.E.
Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of
the 1994 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern
Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1995): 103-106.
65) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Introduction,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z.
Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations
at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre
of Non-Western Studies, 1996): 1-3.
66) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Excavations,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike
(Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-
Western Studies, 1996): 7-97.
67) S.E. Sidebotham and J.A. Seeger, “The Coins,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich,
eds., contributors, Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike
(Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-
Western Studies, 1996): 179-196.
68) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Ship Graffito,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavations at Berenike
(Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-
Western Studies, 1996): 315-317.
69) S.E. Sidebotham and R.E. Zitterkopf, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and
W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of the 1995
Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert
(Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1996): 357-409.
70) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Interpretative Summary and Conclusion,” in S.E.
Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1995. Preliminary Report of
the 1995 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern
Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1996): 441-452.
71) S.E. Sidebotham, “Newly Discovered Sites in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology 82 (1996): 181-192.
72) With R.S. Bagnall, J.G. Manning and R.E. Zitterkopf, “A Ptolemaic Inscription from Bir
'Iayyan,” Chronique d'Égypte 71, fasc. 142 (1996): 317-330.
73) With J.P. Oleson, et al., “Artifactual Evidence for the History of the Harbors of Caesarea,”
in A. Raban and K.G. Holum, eds., Caesarea Maritima A Retrospective After Two
Millennia (Leiden-New York-Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996): 359-377.
74) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Fieldwork at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt
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1994-1996,” Archaeological News 21-22 (1996-1997): 34-40 & 117-131 (Figs. 26-48).
75) S.E. Sidebotham and R.E. Zitterkopf, “Survey of the Via Hadriana by the University of
Delaware: the 1996 Season,” Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Archéologie Orientale 97
(1997): 221-237.
76) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Introduction,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z.
Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike
(Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-
Western Studies, 1998): 1-2.
77) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Excavations,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red
Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies,
1998): 11-120.
78) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Coins,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors,
Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and
the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1998): 181-192.
79) S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red
Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies,
1998): 415-426.
80) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Interpretative Summary and Conclusion,” in S.E.
Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1996. Report of the 1996
Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert
(Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1998), 445-454.
81) S.E. Sidebotham and R.E. Zitterkopf, “Survey of the Via Hadriana: the 1997 Season,”
Bulletin de L'Institut français d'Archéologie Orientale 98 (1998): 353-365.
82) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-
Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt: 1994-1998,” Sahara 10 (1998): 85-96.
83) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Introduction,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z.
Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike
and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden:
Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1999): 1-2.
84) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Excavations,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of
the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: Centre of Non-
Western Studies, 1999): 3-94.
85) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Coins,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors,
Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian
Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western
Studies, 1999): 183-199.
86) S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of
the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: Centre of Non-
Western Studies, 1999): 349-369.
87) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Interpretative Summary and Conclusion,” in S.E.
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Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997
Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including
Excavations at Shenshef (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1999): 445-456.
88) S.E. Sidebotham, “News of Members,” The Explorers Club Newsletter 31, no. 3 (July-
September 1999): 3-4.
89) With R.E. Zitterkopf and C.C. Helms, “Survey of the Via Hadriana: The 1998 Season,”
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 37 (2000): 115-126.
90) With R.A.K. Osman, “Geomorphology and Archaeology of the Central Eastern Desert of
Egypt,” Sahara 12 (2000): 7-30.
91) With V. Begley, “Archaeological Excavations at the Indo-Roman Trading Port at
Arikamedu, India: 1989-1992,” in M. Taddei and G. De Marco, eds., South Asian
Archaeology 1997 (Serie Orientale Roma XC) volume II (Rome: IsIAO, 2000): 961-983.
92) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Introduction,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z.
Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike
and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat
(Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 2000): 1-2.
93) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Excavations,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of
the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden: Centre of
Non-Western Studies, 2000): 3-147.
94) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Coins,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors,
Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian
Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western
Studies, 2000): 169-178.
95) S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich,
eds., contributors, Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the
Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden:
Centre of Non-Western Studies, 2000): 355-377.
96) S.E. Sidebotham, H. Barnard, D.K. Pearce and A.J. Price, “Excavations in Wadi Kalalat,”
in S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1998. Report of the
1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including
Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 2000): 379-402.
97) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Interpretative Summary and Conclusion,” in S.E.
Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998
Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including
Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 2000): 413-420.
98) With H. Barnard, J.A. Harrell and R.S. Tomber, “The Roman Quarry and Installations in
Wadi Umm Wikala and Wadi Semna,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 87 (2001): 135-
170.
99) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich “Berenike: Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-
Roman ports on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt 1999-2001,” 13: 23-50.
100) S.E. Sidebotham, “From Berenike to Koptos: Recent Results of the Desert Route Survey,”
Topoi 10,3 (2002): 415-438.
101) With W. Van Neer, “Animal remains from the fourth-sixth century A.D. military
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installations at Abu Sha'ar on the Red Sea coast of Egypt,” in Jennerstrasse 8, ed., Tides of
the Desert - Gezeiten der Wüste - Contributions to the Archaeology and Environmental
History of Africa in Honor of Rudolph Kuper (14 Africa Praehistorica. Monographs on
African Archaeology and Environment) (Bonn: Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 2002): 171-195.
102) With H. Barnard and G. Pyke, “Five Enigmatic Late Roman Settlements in the Eastern
Desert,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 88 (2002): 187-225.
103) S.E. Sidebotham, “Late Roman Berenike,” Journal of the American Research Center in
Egypt 39 (2002): 217-240.
104) With L. Mulvin, “The Gameboards from Abu Sha’ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt,” Antiquity
78, no. 301 (September 2004): 602-617.
105) S.E. Sidebotham, H.M. Nouwens, A.M. Hense and J.A. Harrell, “Preliminary Report on
Archaeological Fieldwork at Sikait (Eastern Desert of Egypt), and Environs: 2002-2003,”
Sahara 15 (2004): 7-30.
106) S.E. Sidebotham, G.T. Mikhail, J.A. Harrell and R.S. Bagnall “A Water Temple at Bir Abu
Safa (Eastern Desert),” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 41 (2004): 149-
159.
107) S.E. Sidebotham, "Trenches of the Southern Sector, 1992," in V. Begley, et al., The Ancient
Port of Arikamedu: New Excavations and Researches 1989-1992 Volume Two (Mémoires
Archéologiques 22.2) (Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2004): 16-103.
108) With D.F. Graf, L.-A. Bedal and S.G. Schmid, “The Hellenistic Petra Project: Excavations
in the Civic Center. Preliminary Report of the First Season, 2004,” Annual of the
Department of Antiquities of Jordan 49 (2005): 417-442.
109) With J.A. Seeger, J.A. Harrell and M. Pons, “A Brief Archaeological Survey of the Aqiq
region (Red Sea Coast), Sudan,” Sahara 17 (2006): 7-18.
110) With J.A. Harrell, S. Marchand, R.S. Bagnall, J.E. Gates and J.-L. Rivard, “The Ptolemaic
to Early Roman Amethyst Quarry at Abu Diyeiba in Egypt’s Eastern Desert” Bulletin de
l’Institut français d’Archéologie Orientale 106 (2006): 127-162.
111) With D.F. Graf, S.G. Schmid and E. Ronza, “The Hellenistic Petra Project: Excavations in
the Qasr al-Bint Temenos Area, Preliminary Report of the Second Season, 2005,” Annual
of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 51 (2007): 223-238.
112) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Introduction,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W. Z.
Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike,
Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus
Region (Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007): 1-3.
113) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Excavations,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W. Z. Wendrich, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including
Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region
(Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007): 30-165.
114) S.E. Sidebotham, “The Coins,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W. Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors,
Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in
Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles,
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007): 200-210.
115) S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W. Z. Wendrich,
eds., contributors, Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including
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Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region
(Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007): 295-303.
116) With B.C. Foster, J.-L. Rivard and H. Cuvigny, “Survey of the Emerald Mines at Wadi
Sikait,” in S.E. Sidebotham and W. Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1999/2000.
Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket,
and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology, 2007): 304-343.
117) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Interpretative Summary and Conclusion,” in S.E.
Sidebotham and W. Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the
Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey
of the Mons Smaragdus Region (Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2007): 368-
374.
118) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Excavations at Berenike 2009,” Journal of Indian Ocean
Archaeology, 5 (2008-09): 107-110.
119) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Berenike: Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman
Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt 2008-2010,” Sahara 21 (2010): 7-26 & Plates A1-A7.
120) S.E. Sidebotham, R.I. Thomas and J.A. Harrell, “The El-Kab & Nuri-Hamdab/Fourth
Cataract Survey January 2006,” in W. Godlewski and A. Łajtar, eds., Acts of the 11th
Conference of Nubian Studies, Session Papers (vol. 2)(Warsaw: Warsaw University
Publishers for the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2010): 77-110.
121) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Berenike: Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’s Red Sea gateway
to the East,” Egyptian Archaeology 39 (fall 2011): 18-20.
122) S.E. Sidebotham, “Appendix I: Ancient coins from Quseir al-Qadim: the Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago excavations 1978, 1980 and 1982,” in D. Peacock and L. Blue
(eds.), Myos Hormos – Quseir al-Qadim. Roman and Islamic Ports on the Red Sea.
Volume 2: Finds from the Excavations 1999-2003 (University of Southampton Series in
Archaeology No. 6) (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011): 353-360.
123) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Introduction and Acknowledgements,” in S.E. Sidebotham
and I. Zych, eds., contributors, Berenike 2008-2009. Report on the Excavations at
Berenike, including a survey in the Eastern Desert (Warsaw: Polish Centre of
Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 2011): 9.
124) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Excavations,” in S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 2008-2009. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including a
survey in the Eastern Desert (Warsaw: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology,
University of Warsaw, 2011): 25-57.
125) S.E. Sidebotham, “Coins,” in S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, eds., contributors, Berenike
2008-2009. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including a survey in the Eastern
Desert (Warsaw: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw,
2011): 79-81.
126) S.E. Sidebotham, “Survey of the Hinterland,” in S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, eds.,
contributors, Berenike 2008-2009. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including a
survey in the Eastern Desert (Warsaw: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology,
University of Warsaw, 2011): 166-171.
127) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Conclusion,” in S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, eds.,
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contributors, Berenike 2008-2009. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including a
survey in the Eastern Desert (Warsaw: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology,
University of Warsaw, 2011): 175-177.
128) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Berenike: Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman
Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt 2011-2012,” Sahara 23 (2012): 29-48.
129) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Results of Fieldwork at Berenike: A Ptolemaic-Roman Port
on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt, 2008-2010,” Topoi supplément 11 (2012): 133-157.
130) With J. Rądkowska and I. Zych, “The Late Roman Harbor Temple of Berenike. Results of
the 2010 Season of Excavations,” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XXII
(Research 2010) (2013): 209-228.
131) With David F. Graf, Thomas Leisten, William D. Glanzman, Gary Rollefson, Jean-Louis
Rivard, Robert Schick and Salem Tairan, “Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Jurash,
First Season, 2008,” Atlal: The Saudi Journal of Archaeology: forthcoming.
132) With D.F. Graf, B. Dolinka, F. Erickson, E. Ronza and A. Wasse “The Hellenistic Petra
Project: Excavations along the Paved Street in the City Center, Preliminary Report of the
Third Season, 2007,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan: forthcoming.
133) With I. Zych, J.K. Rądkowska and I.C. Liñeiro, “The ‘Square Feature’ in the Harbor:
Excavations in Berenike 2010-2011,” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XXIII/1
(2014): 245-264.
134) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Results of the winter 2014-2015 Excavations at Berenike
(Egyptian Red Sea Coast), Egypt & Related Fieldwork in the Eastern Desert,” Journal of
Indian Ocean Archaeology 12 (2016): 1-34.
135) S.E. Sidebotham, “Results of Fieldwork at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt 2008-2012,”
in L. Vagalinski, N. Sharankov, eds., Limes XXII. Proceedings of the 22nd International
Congress of Roman Frontier Studies Ruse, Bulgaria, September 2012 (= Bulletin of the
National Archaeological Institute XLII, 2015) (Sofia: National Archaeological Institute
with Museum/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2015): 341-349.
136) S.E. Sidebotham, “Research Spotlight: Archaeological Excavations in Egypt,” Center for
Global and Area Studies Bulletin 4 (winter 2015/2016): 3 & 11.
137) S E. Sidebotham, I. Zych, J.K. Rądkowska and M.Woźniak, “Berenike Project
Hellenistic fort, Roman harbor, late Roman temple, and other Fieldwork. Archaeological
work in the 2012 and 2013 seasons,” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 24/1
(2015): 297–324.
138) Iwona Zych, S.E. Sidebotham, Martin Hense, Joanna K. Rądkowska and Marek Woźniak,
“Archaeological Fieldwork in Berenike in 2014 and 2015: From Hellenistic Rock-Cut
Installations to Abandoned Temple Ruins,” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 25
(2016): 315-348 [published June 2017].
139) S.E. Sidebotham, R.I. Thomas, M.A. Sidebotham and J.-L. Rivard, “Petra Colonnaded
Street Survey, 2008,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities Jordan 58 (2014-2015):
145-169 [published June 2017].
140) S.E. Sidebotham, “Overview of Fieldwork at Berenike 1994-2015/Les fouille
archéologiques de Bérénice 1994-2015” for “Le Désert Oriental d’Égypte durant la période
gréco-romaine: bilans archéologiques,” March 30-31, 2016, Paris, France. Published on
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line in the collection « Institut des civilisations », séries « Mondes méditerranéens
antiques » = http://books.openedition.org/cdf/4673 as “The Eastern Desert of Egypt during
the Graeco-Roman period: archaeological results,” J.-P. Brun, T. Faucher, B. Redon, S.
Sidebotham, (eds.) (September 2018).
141) David F. Graf, Steven Sidebotham, Benjamin Dolinka, Tali Erickson-Gini and Alexander
Wasse, “The Hellenistic Petra Project: Excavations along the Colonnaded Street.
Preliminary Report of the third Season, 2007,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities
Jordan: forthcoming.
142) J.A. Harrell and S.E. Sidebotham, “Wadi Barud North: a new Roman quarry and stone
from Egypt’s Eastern Desert,” MARMORA: forthcoming.
143) M.A. Woźniak and S.E. Sidebotham, “Hellenistic Berenike: Investigation of daily life in a
remote Ptolemaic fortress on the Red Sea coast of Egypt,” Journal of Field Archaeology:
forthcoming.
Popular/semi-popular articles
144) S.E. Sidebotham, “Lure of the Desert Road,” Archaeology (Archaeological Institute of
America Publication) 42,4 (July/August 1989): 58-60.
145) S.E. Sidebotham, “Römische Straßen in der ägyptischen Wüste,” Antike Welt 22,3 (March
1991): 177-189.
146) S.E. Sidebotham, “A Roman Fort on the Red Sea Coast,” Minerva 3,2 (March/April 1992):
5-8.
147) S.E. Sidebotham and R.E. Zitterkopf, “Routes Through the Eastern Desert of Egypt,”
Expedition 37,2 (1995): 39-52.
148) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Port of Elephants and Pearls,” Egypt Today 16,12
(December 1995): 144-145.
149) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: Roman Egypt's Maritime Gateway to
Arabia and India,” Egyptian Archaeology 8 (1996): 15-18.
150) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike, Roms Tor am Roten Meer nach Arabien
und Indien,” Antike Welt 32,3 (2001): 251-263.
151) With J.-L. Rivard and B.C. Foster, “Emerald City,” Archaeology 55,3 (May/June 2002): 36-
41.
152) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, “Berenike: A Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Ancient
Maritime Spice and Incense Route,” Minerva 13,3 (May/June 2002): 28-31.
153) With H.M. Nouwens and M. Hense, “Smaragden uit Sikait,” Archeologie Magazine 11,5
(Oktober/November 2003): 40-46.
154) With J.-L. Rivard and B.C. Foster, “Die Smaragd-Stadt,” Abenteuer Archäologie 1 (2004):
42-45.
155) With H. Nouwens and M. Hense, “Unieke vondsten in de oostelijke Egyptische woestijn,
Sikait: een bijzondere stad, Nieuwsbrief van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch genootschap,” Ex
Oriente Lux 21 (Oktober 2004): 8-11.
156) With J.A. Harrell, “Wadi Abu Diyeiba: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Amethyst
Quarry in Egypt’s Eastern Desert,” Minerva 15,6 (November-December 2004): 12-14. 157)
With H. Barnard, L.A. Pintozzi and R.S. Tomber, “Kab Marfu’a: An Enigmatic Settlement
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in Egypt’s Eastern Desert,” Minerva 16,1 (January-February 2005): 24-26.
158) With J.A. Seeger, “Marsa Nakari: A Port on the Red Sea,” Egyptian Archaeology 26
(spring 2005): 18-20.
159) With R.E. Zitterkopf, “Surveying the Via Nova Hadriana: The Emperor Hadrian’s Desert
Highway in Egypt,” Minerva 17,3 (May/June 2006): 34-35.
160) S.E. Sidebotham, “From the Mediterranean to South Asia: The Odyssey of an Indian
Merchant in Roman Times,” in K.S. Mathew, ed., Imperial Rome, Indian Ocean Regions
and Muziris. New Perspectives on Maritime Trade (New Delhi: Manohar Press, 2015): 75-
81.
161) S.E. Sidebotham, M. Osypińska and I. Zych, “Die Tiernekropole von Berenike” Antike Welt
1/17 (January 2017): 5.
162) S.E. Sidebotham, “Zwischen Wüste und Meer: Der Hafen von Berenike in ptolemäisch
römischer Zeit,” Antike Welt 2/17 (March 2017): 60-69.
163) M. Hense and S. Sidebotham, “A Middle Kingdom Text from a Hellenistic-Roman Red Sea
Port,” Egyptian Archaeology 51 (autumn 2017): 41-43.
164) S.E. Sidebotham, “Berenike: A Ptolemaic-Roman Port on Egypt’s Red Sea Shore,” KMT: A
Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 29, no. 1 (spring 2018): 53-61.
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3) L. Mildenberg, The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War, Typos IV (Aarau, Switzerland: Verlag
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Oriental Society 121.1 (2001): 137-138.
22) A. Meyer, L.A. Heidorn, W.E. Kaegi and T. Wilfong, Bir Umm Fawakhir Survey Project
1993. A Byzantine Gold-Mining Town in Egypt (Oriental Institute Communications no. 28)
(Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2000) in Journal of the
American Oriental Society 121.3 (2001): 507-508.
23) B. Valbelle, J.-Y. Carrez-Maratray, et al., Le camp romain du Bas-Empire à Tell el-Herr
(Paris: Éditions Errance, 2000) in Syria 80 (2003): 299-300.
24) H. Cuivigny, ed., La route de Myos Hormos. L’armée romaine dans le désert Oriental
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d’Égypte (FIFAO 48/1 & 48/2) (Cairo: IFAO, 2003) in Journal of the American Oriental
Society 125,1 (2005): 131-133.
25) C.M. Reed, Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003) in Classical World 99.2 (2006): 192-193.
26) J.E. Lendon, Soldiers & Ghosts. A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (New Haven-
London: Yale University Press, 2005) in The Journal of Military History 70, 1 (January
2006): 208-210.
27) K. Butcher, Roman Syria and the Near East (London: British Museum Press, 2003) in
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 66,1 (January 2007): 63-65.
28) “The Red Sea port of Quseir al-Qadim (Myos Hormos),” review of: D. Peacock and L.
Blue, eds., Myos Hormos - Quseir al-Qadim. Roman and Islamic Ports on the Red Sea.
Volume 1: Survey and Excavations 1999-2003 (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006) in Journal of
Roman Archaeology 20, 2 (2007): 626-628.
29) “Basalt as ballast and the incense trade,” review of D. Peacock and D. Williams, eds., Food
of the Gods. New Light on the Ancient Incense Trade (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007) in
Journal of Roman Archaeology 20, 2 (2007): 628-630.
30) D. Peacock, and L. Blue, The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis, Eritrea: Results of
the Eritro-British Expedition, 2004-5 (Oxbow Books, Oxford 2007) in The American
Journal of Archaeology 113,3 (July 2009): 492-493.
31) G. Parker, The Making of Roman India (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2008) in The International History Review 32,1 (March 2010): 128-129.
32) U. Luft., ed., Bi’r Minayh. Report on the Survey 1998-2004 (Studia Aegyptica Series Maior
III) (Budapest: Archaeolingua Alapítvány, 2010) in The American Journal of Archaeology
115.1, (January 2011): 2 pages published on line at: http://www.ajaonline.org/online-
review-book/754
33) D.A. Agius, J.P. Cooper, A. Trakadas and C. Zazzaro, eds., Navigated Spaces, Connected
Places: Proceedings of the Red Sea Project V held at the University of Exeter, 16-19
September 2010 (Oxford: BAR International Series 2346, 2012) in Journal of Ancient
Egyptian Interconnections 5.1 (2013): 90-92.
34) “Surveying the Wadi ‘Araba near Aqaba,” review of S.T. Parker and A.M. Smith III, The
Roman Aqaba Project Final Report. Volume 1 – The Regional Environment and the
Regional Survey (American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports Number
19) (Boston, MA; American Schools of Oriental Research 2014), in Journal of Roman
Archaeology 28, 2 (2015): 905-907.
35) “A conference on Indo-Mediterranean commerce,” review of F. De Romanis and M.
Maiuro eds., Across the Ocean: Nine Essays on Indo-Mediterranean Trade (Leiden; E.J.
Brill, 2015) (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition volume 41), in Journal of Roman
Archaeology 29 (2016): 915-919.
36) Diana K. Davis. The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge (Cambridge, MA-
London: MIT Press, 2016), in Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal 1,1 (spring 2017): 101-
104. 37) Rajan Gurukkal, Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade. Political Economy of Eastern
Mediterranean Exchange Relations (New Delhi Oxford University Press, 2016), in South
Asia. Journal of South Asian Studies 40, no. 2 (2017): 426-428.
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Photographic Publications
1) Photographs for W.H. Stiebing, "The End of the Mycenean Age," Biblical Archaeologist
43,1 (1980): 7-21.
2) Photographs for J.M. Fennelly, "The Persepolis Ritual," Biblical Archaeologist 43,3
(1980): 135-162.
3) Photographs for V. Begley, "New Investigations at the Port of Arikamedu," Journal of
Roman Archaeology 6 (1993): 93-107.
4) Photographs for R.S. Bagnall and J.A. Sheridan, "Greek and Latin Documents from 'Abu
Sha'ar, 1990-1991," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 31 (1994): 159-
168.
5) Photographs for R.S. Bagnall and J.A. Sheridan, "Greek and Latin Documents from 'Abu
Sha'ar, 1992-1993," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 31 (1994): 109-120.
6) Photographs for S. Burstein, ed., Ancient African Civilizations (Princeton: Marcus Wiener
Publishers, 1998).
7) Photographs for S.M. Burstein, “The Kingdom of Meroe,” in E.M. Yamauchi, ed., Africa
and Africans in Antiquity (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001): p. 136
(Fig. 4.2), p. 140 (Fig. 4.4b), p. 145 (Fig. 4.6), p. 146 (Fig. 4.7), p. 147 (Fig. 4.8).
8) Photographs for G. Markoe, ed., Petra Rediscovered. Lost City of the Nabataeans (New
York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003): 2-3 and 10.
9) Photographs for E.M. Yamauchi, Africa and the Bible Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic,
2004): 156 (Figure 5.5) & 157 (Figure 5.6).
10) Photographs for D.F. Graf, “Rome and China: Some Frontier Comparisons,” in Z. Visy,
ed., Limes XIX. Proceedings of the XIXth International Congress of Roman Frontier
Studies held in Pécs, Hungary, September 2003 (Pécs: University of Pécs, 2005): 164
(Figs. 3-4) & 165 (Fig. 5).
11) Photographs for D. Breeze, S. Jilek and A. Thiel, Frontiers of the Roman Empire
(Edinburgh-Esslingen-Vienna: Historic Scotland, UK and Deutsche Limeskommission,
Germany, 2005): 16 (fig. 12), 16 (fig. 13).
12) Photographs for M. Klee, Grenzen des Imperiums. Leben am römischen Limes (Stuttgart:
Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2006): 125 (bottom), 127 (bottom), 129 (above).
13) Photograph for J.E. Gates, “Hidden Passage: Graeco-Roman Roads in Egypt’s Eastern
Desert,” in E.C. Robertson, J.D. Seibert, D.C. Fernandez and M.U. Zender, eds., Space and
Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2006): 319
(Fig. 5).
14) Photographs for “The History of Gemstones-Gemstone Adventure Series” for CD Rom:
Jupiter Entertainment, spring 2007.
15) Photograph for R. Tomber, “The Ancient Spice Trade: Archaeology of Globalisation,” 20,
no. 2 (March/April 2009): 37 (Fig 9).
16) Photograph for M. Klee, Lebensadern des Imperiums. Strassen im römischen Reich
(Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2010): 103.
17) Photographs for D.F. Graf and S. Tairan, “Jurash, cité caravanière sur la route de l’encens,”
L’Archéo-Théma 9 (juillet-août 2010): 24, 26-27, 28 (bottom), 29 (bottom).
18) Photograph for L. Blue, “The Red Sea,” in A. Catsambis, B. Ford and D.L. Hamilton, eds.,
The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011):
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503 (Figure 22.4).
19) Photographs for A. Manser, “Uncovering the Secrets of Berenike,” University of Delaware
Research 3, no. 1 (2011): 24-27: on pp. 24-25, inset on p. 26, p. 27.
20) Photograph for J. Gates-Foster, “The Eastern Desert and the Red Sea Ports,” in C. Riggs,
ed., The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) 740
(Fig. 44.2).
21) Photograph for P. Pomey, “À propos des navires de la mer Érythrée: découvertes récentes
et nouveaux aspects de la question,” Topoi Supplément 11 (2012): 116 (Fig. 6).
22) Photographs for D.F. Graf, “Petra and the Nabataeans in the Early Hellenistic Period: The
Literary and Archaeological Evidence,” in M. Mouton and S.G. Schmidt, eds., Men on the
Rocks. The Formation of Nabataean Petra. Proceedings of a conference held in Berlin 2-4
December 2011 (Supplement to the Bulletin of Nabataean Studies, 1) (Berlin: Logos
Verlag, 2013): 39 (Fig. 1), 40 (Fig. 3), 41 (Fig. 4), 42 (Figs. 5-7), 43 (Fig. 8).
23) Photographs for D.F. Graf, “Rediscovering Early Hellenistic Petra,” in N. Khairy and T.M.
Weber, eds., Studies on Nabataean Culture. 1. Refereed Proceedings of the International
Conference on Nabataean Culture (Amman: University of Jordan, 2013): 30 (Figs. 1 and
3), 31 (Fig. 4), 32 (Figs. 5-6), 33 (Fig. 9).
24) Photographs for W.D. Glanzman, “Pottery, people, and politics: a case from southern
Arabia,” Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 44 (2014) Papers from the forty-
seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 26
to 28 July 2013: p. 171 (Figs. 2 & 3).
25) Photos for M. Hense, O.E. Kaper and C.R.A. Geerts, “A Stela of Amenemhet IV from the
Main Temple at Berenike,” Bibliotheca Orientalis 52, nos. 5-6 (September-December
2015): 589-590 (Figs. 2-3).
26) Photo for J. Hutchinson, "Ancient Egyptian Pet Cemetery Discovered." In World History:
Ancient and Medieval Eras, ABC-CLIO, 2004. Accessed January 5, 2017.
https://ancienthistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/2058577.
27) Photo for Wilmington News Journal, December 5, 2016.
28) Photos for D.F. Graf, “The Saga of Syllaeus Revisited,” in N. Khairy and T.M. Weber,
eds., Studies in Nabataean Culture. 2. Refereed Proceedings of the International
Conference on Nabataean Culture (Amman: University of Jordan, 2016): 150 (Fig. 4).
29) Photos and video for Science Channel TV program “Unearthed: The Lost City of the
Desert,” first aired on August 15, 2017.
30) Photos for G.E. Thüry and J. Walter, Gewürze aus dem alten Rom. Das Geheimnis der
römischen Küche (Mainz: Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag & Media GmbH, 2017): p. 44 (Abb.
17) and p. 68 (Abb. 25).
31) Photos for M. Hense, O.E. Kaper and R.C.A. Geerts,” A Stela of Amenemhet IV from the
Main Temple at Berenike,” Bibliotheca Orientalis 72, nos. 5-6 (September-December
2015): 589-590, Figs. 2-3.
32) Photos for Marek Woźniak, “Shaping a city and its defenses: fortifications of Hellenistic
Berenike Trogodytika,” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 26/2 (2017): 43-60:
photos on p. 45 (Fig. 2), p 48 (Fig. 3), pp. 48-49 (Fig. 4), p. 50 (Fig. 5), p. 54 (Fig. 6), p. 55
(Fig. 7).
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33) Photos for I. Zych, “The harbor of early Roman “Imperial” Berenike: overview of
excavations from 2009 to 2015,” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 26/2 (2017): 93-
132: photos on p. 100 (Fig. 5), p. 101 (some of Fig. 6), p. 104 (Fig. 7), p. 105 (Fig. 8), p.
106 (Figs. 9-10), p. 107 (Figs. 11-12), p. 109 (Fig. 13), p. 110 (some of Fig. 14), p. 112 (Fig.
15 bottom), p. 113 (Fig. 16), p. 114 (Fig. 17, coin), p. 115 (Fig. 18), p. 116 (Fig. 19), p. 117
(Figs. 20-21), p. 120 (Fig. 23), p. 122 (most of Fig, 25), p. 123 (Fig. 27), p. 128 (Fig. 28), p.
129 (Fig. 29).
34) Photos for M. Hense, “The Great Temple in Berenike: new findings of the Berenike Temple
Project,” Polish Archeology in the Mediterranean 26/2 (2017): 133-145: photo on p. 139
(Fig. 5, left).
35) Photos for M. Osypińska and P. Osypiński, “New evidence for the emergence of a human–
pet relation in early Roman Berenike (1st–2nd century ad),” Polish Archaeology in the
Mediterranean 26/2 (2017): 167-192: photo on p. 175 (Fig. 7, right).
36) Photos for J.K. Rądowska and I. Zych, “Exotic Cults in Roman Berenike? An Investigation
in Two Temples in the Harbour Temenos,” in A. Manzo, C. Zazzaro and D.J. de Falco,
eds., Stories of Globalisation: The Red Sea and Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early
Modernity. Selected Papers of Red Sea VII (Brill: Leiden, 2019): 228 (Figure 11.1), 230
(Figure 11.2), 332 (Figure 11.4), 234 (Figure 11.5), 236 (Figure 11.6), 240 (Figure 11.7),
242 (Figure 11.9).
37) Photos for M. Hense, “The Great Temple of Berenike,” in A. Manzo, C. Zazzaro and D.J. de
Falco, eds., Stories of Globalisation: The Red Sea and Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to
Early Modernity. Selected Papers of Red Sea VII (Brill: Leiden, 2019): 253 (Figure 12.2),
256 (Figure 12.5), 257 (Figure 12.6), 260 (Figure 12.7).
Publications in Preparation
1) S.E. Sidebotham, “Coins from the 1985, 1987 and 1990 University of Georgia Excavations
at the Carthage Circus,” in preparation.
2) S.E. Sidebotham, R.E. Zitterkopf, et al., Roman Forts in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: in
preparation.
3) S.E. Sidebotham, et al., Excavations at Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt 1987-1993
Final Report: in preparation.
4) S.E. Sidebotham, R.E. Zitterkopf, R.S. Tomber and B. Cannon, Survey of the Via Nova
Hadriana: The Final Report in preparation (Oxford: Archaeopress).
5) S.E. Sidebotham, G.F. Compton, J.E. Gates-Foster, B. Tratsaert, L.A. Pintozzi, "Survey of
the Marsa Nakari-Nile Road," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology: in preparation.
6) S.E. Sidebotham and W.Z. Wendrich, eds., contributors, Berenike 2001. Report of the 2001
Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert
(Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology): in preparation.
7) S.E. Sidebotham and I. Zych, “Berenike: Archaeological Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman
Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt 2013-2014,” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean:
in preparation
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8) With Roberta S. Tomber, D.F. Graf and D.T. Potts, The Archaeology of the Western Indian
Ocean Basin from Hellenistic Times to the Rise of Islam: Economic and Cultural
Exchanges of an Early Global Network. Book manuscript solicited by Cambridge
University Press; contract signed.
Other Research (World War II)
1) With M.A. Sidebotham: Book on the crew of a B-24 of the 831st Bomb Squadron, 485th
Bomb Group, 15th USAAF shot down in North Italy on July 20, 1944. Interviews with five
surviving crew members and families of two who died that day and one who died in 1972
completed, archival work and contact with other deceased crew members’ relatives in
progress.
2) Book: J.J. Hurt and S.E. Sidebotham, eds., Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of
Richard M. Mason (University of Delaware Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2014); paperback
edition published in 2016 [see p. 3 entry 16].
3) Conducted video-taped/digital video oral interviews of veterans of World War II since June
6, 2004. 330 veterans interviewed to date. Most are American (both men and women), but
also include 14 Germans, 6 Soviets, 8 Poles, 6 Canadians, 5 Britons, 1 Japanese, 1
Australian, 1 British Mandate pre-1948 Palestinian Jew, 1 Italian priest and 1 other Italian
civilian, 1 Czech, 1 Yugoslav partisan and 1 Belgian resistance fighter, 1 Maltese civilian.
Interviews continue. Excel spread sheets with details available upon request.
Professional Papers Delivered
1) “Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel in 1982” at Man and the Sea Conference,
Philadelphia, PA, March 1983.
2) “Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel in 1982” at meetings of the Classical
Association of Atlantic States, New Brunswick, NJ, April 1983.
3) “Ancient Technology: The Construction of the Herodian-Roman Harbor at Caesarea
Maritima, Israel” at meetings of the Classical Association of Atlantic States-Classical
Association of New England, New Haven, CT, April 1984.
4) “Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel” at meetings of the Classical Association of
Ohio, Wooster, Ohio, October 1984.
5) “The State of Archaeological Research Along the Red Sea Coast of Egypt” for meetings of
the Classical Association of Atlantic States at the University of Maryland, College Park,
MD, April 1986.
6) “The State of Archaeological Research Along the Red Sea Coast of Egypt” for annual
meetings of the American Research Center in Egypt, Washington, D.C., April 1986.
7) “Ptolemaic-Roman Ports on the Red Sea and the India-South Arabia Trade” for the
Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1986.
8) “Ports of the Red Sea and the India Trade” for annual meetings of the Archaeological
Institute of America, San Antonio, TX, December 1986; abstract published in American
Journal of Archaeology 91,2 (1987): 291.
9) “The University of Delaware Archaeological Project at 'Abu Sha'ar, Egypt” for meetings of
the Classical Association of Atlantic States, Princeton, NJ, September 1987.
10) “Archaeological Investigations at 'Abu Sha'ar, Egypt Conducted by the University of
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Delaware” for annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America, New York, NY,
December 1987; abstract published in American Journal of Archaeology 92,2 (1988): 263.
11) “Red Sea Ports and the Arabia-India Trade” for annual meetings of the Association of
Ancient Historians, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 1988 (paper delivered by a third party in my
absence).
12) “Roman Interests in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean” for a colloquium at the British
Museum, London, UK entitled "The Indian Ocean in Antiquity," July 1988.
13) “Roman Ports of the Red Sea and the Arabia-India Trade” for The Eastern Frontier of the
Roman Empire Colloquium held at the British Institute of Archaeology, Ankara, Turkey,
September 1988.
14) “Stations and Towers on the Quseir-Nile Road” for annual meetings of the Archaeological
Institute of America, Baltimore, MD, January 1989; abstract published in American
Journal of Archaeology 93,2 (1989): 260.
15) “Archaeological Investigations at 'Abu Sha'ar and Along the 'Abu Sha'ar-Qena Road
Conducted by the University of Delaware” for annual meetings of the American Research
Center in Egypt, Philadelphia, PA, April 1989.
16) “A Limes in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Myth or Reality?” for XV International Congress
of Roman Frontier Studies, Canterbury, UK, September 1989.
17) “University of Delaware Survey of the 'Abu Sha'ar-Nile Road” for annual meetings of the
Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, MA, December 1989 (paper delivered by a
third party in my absence); abstract published in the American Journal of Archaeology 94,2
(1990): 331-332.
18) “Romans and Arabs in the Red Sea” for Madras Seminar UNESCO Conference on the
Ancient Silk Routes, Madras, India (paper circulated in my absence), December 1990.
19) “University of Delaware Archaeological Project at 'Abu Sha'ar, Egypt: The 1990 Season”
for annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, CA,
December 1990 (paper delivered by a third party in my absence); abstract published in the
American Journal of Archaeology 95,2 (1991): 314.
20) “University of Delaware Archaeological Project at 'Abu Sha'ar 1990” for annual meetings
of the American Research Center in Egypt, Boston, MA, April 1991; abstract published in
American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting Boston 1991 April 26-28, 1991
Program & Abstracts: 55-56.
21) “The 1991 and 1992 Seasons of Excavation at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt” for
annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, LA, December
1992; abstract published in the American Journal of Archaeology 97,2 (1993): 313.
22) “The 1991 and 1992 Seasons of Fieldwork at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast)” for annual
meetings of the American Research Center in Egypt, The Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD, April 1993; abstract published in American Research Center in Egypt
Annual Meeting Baltimore 1993 April 23-25 Program & Abstracts: 51-52.
23) “University of Delaware Survey of the Berenice-Nile Road” for annual meetings of the
Archaeological Institute of America, Washington, D.C., December 1993; abstract
published in the American Journal of Archaeology 98,2 (1994): 300.
24) “Fieldwork by the University of Delaware in Egypt in 1993” for annual meetings of the
American Research Center in Egypt, Toronto, Canada, May, 1994; abstract published in
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American Research Center in Egypt at the University of Toronto Annual Meeting Toronto
April 29-May 1, 1994 Program & Abstracts: 59-60.
25) “University of Delaware-Leiden University Project at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt,
1994” poster in poster session for annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of
America, Atlanta, GA, December 1994; abstract published in the American Journal of
Archaeology 99, 2 (1995): 322.
26) “An Overview of Archaeological Work in the Eastern Desert and Along the Red Sea Coast
by the University of Delaware-Leiden University, 1987-1995” for Séminaire Topoi &
Monarchies hellénistiques, Arabie et Inde, Maison de l'Orient, Lyon, France, March 1995.
27) “The Roman Frontier in the Eastern Desert of Egypt” for the XVI Roman Frontier Studies
Congress in Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, the Netherlands August, 1995.
28) “Caravans Across the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Recent Discoveries on the Berenike-Edfu-
Coptos Roads” for I Profumi d'Arabia Conference, at the University of Pisa, Italy October
1995.
29) “Berenike: 1994-1996 Survey and Excavations at a Ptolemaic-Roman Red Sea Port” for
annual meetings of the American Research Center in Egypt, St. Louis, MO, April 1996;
abstract published in ARCE Annual Meeting St. Louis 1996 April 12-14, 1996 Program &
Abstracts: 67-68.
30) “The Eastern Desert Survey” for The Second International Roman Archaeology
Conference, University of Nottingham, UK, April 1997.
31) With V. Begley, “Archaeological Excavations at the Indo-Roman Trading Port at
Arikamedu, India, 1989-1992” for XIV International Conference of the European
Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Rome, Italy, July 1997.
32) “Berenike, Trade and the Military: Investigations at a Red Sea Port in Egypt” for XVIIth
International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Zalau, Romania, September 1997.
33) “The Contribution of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to Mapping the Eastern Desert”
for XXII International Congress of Papyrology, Florence, Italy, August 1998.
34) Panel moderator “South-Asian Archaeological Finds from Berenike, a Hellenistic-Roman
Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt” for XV International Conference of the European
Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Leiden, the Netherlands, July 1999.
35) “The Roman Empire's Southeastern-Most Frontier: Recent Discoveries at Berenike and
Environs (Eastern Desert of Egypt) 1998-2000” for the XVIIIth International Congress of
Roman Frontier Studies, Amman, Jordan, September 2000.
36) “Recent Fieldwork in the Eastern Desert of Egypt” for conference: Arid Lands in Roman
Times, Rome, Italy, July 2001.
37) “Overview of the History and Archaeology of the Red Sea Coast of Egypt” for conference
entitled Early Trade and Navigation in the Indian Ocean, Ravenna, Italy, July 2002.
38) “Reflections of ethnicity in the Red Sea commerce in antiquity: evidence of trade goods,
languages and religions from the excavations at Berenike (Red Sea coast), Egypt,” for Red
Sea Study Day, British Museum, London, UK, October 2002.
39) “Archaeological Evidence for Ships and Harbor Facilities at Berenike (Red Sea Coast),
Egypt” for The Maritime World of Ancient Rome, American Academy in Rome, Italy,
March 2003.
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40) “Recent Fieldwork in the Eastern Desert of Egypt 2001-2003,” for the XIX International
Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Pécs, Hungary, September 2003.
41) “Red Sea Ports and their Networks,” for Byzantine Trade (4th-12th c.): Recent
Archaeological Work (The 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies), Oxford, UK,
March 2004.
42) “Sikait: Fieldwork at an Ancient Emerald Mine in the Eastern Desert 2002-2003,” for
annual meetings of the American Research Center in Egypt, University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona, April 2004. Abstract published in The 55th Annual Meeting of the American
Research Center in Egypt. April 16-18, 2004 University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona: 94-
95.
43) “Early Roman Berenike,” for seminar entitled “The Western Indian Ocean Rim in the
Longue Durée-Local Trade and Tradition, Translocal Exchange,” Bergen, Norway, June
2004.
44) “The Red Sea Trading Port of Berenike, Egypt” Inaugural Lecture for Roman Archaeology
Conference VI, Birmingham, UK, March 2005.
45) “Some Ptolemaic-Early Roman Gold Mining Settlements in the Eastern Desert of Egypt,”
The First International Conference on the Geology of the Tethys, Cairo Egypt, November
2005. Abstract published in Agenda and Abstracts The First International Conference on
the Geology of the Tethys Cairo University, November 2005 (Cairo: The Tethys Geological
Society, 2005): 12.
46) With Prof. J.A. Harrell (University of Toledo, Ohio), “Survey of the Ptolemaic-Early
Roman Amethyst Quarries in Wadi Abu Diyeiba, Eastern Desert.,” for the 57th annual
meetings of the American Research Center in Egypt, Jersey City, NJ, April 2006. Abstract
published in The 57th Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt April 28-
30, 2006 Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Atlanta, GA: American Research Center in Egypt, 2006): 82-83.
47) “Numbers, Sizes and Garrisons of Roman Forts in the Eastern Desert of Egypt,” for
conference entitled Walls of the Ruler. Fortifications, Police Beats, and Military
Checkpoints in Ancient Egypt, Swansea, Wales, UK, May 2006.
48) “Nuri-Hamdan/4th Cataract Survey, January 2006,” for The 11th Conference of Nubian
Studies, Warsaw, Poland, August 2006.
49) “Distribution Patterns and Garrisons of Roman Forts in Egypt’s Eastern Desert,” for the
XXth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, León, Spain, September 2006.
50) “Berenike and India: Evidence for Commercial and Cultural Contacts in Ptolemaic and
Roman Times,” for Indian and Pacific Crossings: Perspectives on Globalization and
History, Fremantle, Australia, December 2006.
51) “Research on the Red Sea Coast 1987-2007,” Archaeology Seminar for Department of
Antiquities and Museums/US Embassy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 2007.
52) “Evidence of South Asian Trade with the Red Sea Port of Berenike” 19th International
Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Ravenna, Italy,
July 2007.
53) “Jurash: Fieldwork in southwestern Saudi Arabia” Red Sea IV – Connected Hinterlands.
The Fourth International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea Region. 25th-26th
September 2008. Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton,
Southampton, UK, September 2008.
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54) “The Red Sea Port of Berenike: Stopover Emporium between the Mediterranean and
Malabar Coasts.” International Seminar on Muziris Heritage Project: Archaeological
Research at Pattanam 2007 & 2008, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), India, November 2008.
55) “Berenike: Red Sea Port on the Ancient Maritime Silk Route.” East Meets West Along the
Maritime Silk Route, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, July 2009.
56) With Gary Rollefson “The Regional Survey of the Jurash Project, Asir Province, Saudi
Arabia, 2009” American Schools of Oriental Research meetings, New Orleans, LA,
November 2009. Delivered by Rollefson in my absence.
57) “Berenike: Fieldwork at a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt 2008-
2010,” Red Sea V - Navigated Spaces, Connected Places, The Fifth International
Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea Region, University of Exeter, UK, September
2010.
58) “Trade Goods, Languages and Religions: Indicators of Ethnicity at the Ptolemaic-Roman
Red Sea Port of Berenike, Egypt,” Séminaire de recherche: Autour du Périple de la Mer
Érythrée. Lyon, France, December 2010.
59) “The Ancient Red Sea and Long-Distance Trade,” at Center for the Ancient Mediterranean,
Columbia University conference on trade in and between the Mediterranean and the Indian
Ocean in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Columbia University, New York City, March
2011.
60) “Results of Fieldwork at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1994-2011,” Beliefs, Markets,
and Empires: Understanding Mechanisms of Integration in Early Societies, Conference
held at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 2011.
61) “An Ancient Merchant’s Journey from India to Alexandria,” for Poles on the Nile,
Department of the Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia of the Institute of Archaeology of the
University of Warsaw/Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Warsaw, Poland, June
2011.
62) “Results of Fieldwork at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt 2008-2012,” for the XXII
International Congress of Roman Frontier (Limes) Studies, Ruse, Bulgaria, September
2012. Abstract published in XXII International Limes Congress 6-11 September 2012 Ruse,
Bulgaria – Plenary Session Programme: 116.
63) “Berenike and the Red Sea Trade in Ptolemaic to Late Roman Times,” for Eilat and the
Negev-A Bridge Between Cultures and Peoples The Second Eilat Conference: The
Classical Periods, Eilat, Israel, March 2013. Abstract published in U. Avner, ed., Eilat and
the Negev – A Bridge Between Cultures and Peoples. The Second Eilat Conference: The
Classical Period. Hilton – Queen of Sheba Hotel, Eilat, March 13-15, 2013: 14.
64) “From the Mediterranean to South Asia: The Odyssey of an Indian Merchant in Roman
Times, inaugural address for International Seminar on “Imperial Rome, Indian Ocean
Regions and Muziris: Recent Researches and New Perspectives on Maritime Trade”
organized by the Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Nirmalagiri,
Kannur, Kerala, India. Abstract published in W. Kokkat, ed., Seminar on Imperial Rome,
Indian Ocean Regions and Muziris: Recent Researches and New Perspectives on Maritime
Trade. 8-12 September 2013: 72.
65) “Roman Ports on the Red Sea and their Contacts with Africa, Arabia and South Asia:
Recent Archaeological Evidence,” for International Seminar on “Imperial Rome, Indian
Ocean Regions and Muziris: Recent Researches and New Perspectives on Maritime Trade”
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organized by the Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Nirmalagiri,
Kannur, Kerala, India, September 2013. Abstract published in W. Kokkat, ed., Seminar on
Imperial Rome, Indian Ocean Regions and Muziris: Recent Researches and New
Perspectives on Maritime Trade. 8-12 September 2013: 73-74.
66) With I. Zych and M. Osypińska, “Burials at the Red Sea harbor of Berenike,” for Burial
and Mortuary Practices in Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egypt. International Conference
July 17th-19th (2014), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary. Abstract published on p.
20. Paper delivered in my absence.
67) “Brief Overview of Excavations at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt 2011-2015,” for
The Red Sea Project VII. The Red Sea and the Gulf: Two Alternative Maritime Routes in
the Development of Global Economy, from the Late Prehistory to Modern Times. The
seventh international conference on the peoples of the Red Sea region and their
environment. Università di Napoli L’Orientale 26th - 30th May 2015. Abstract published in
Red Sea Project VII. The Seventh International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea
Region and Their Environment. The Red Sea and the Gulf: Two Alternative Maritime
Routes in the Development of Global Economy, from the Late Prehistory to Modern Times
26-30 May 2015: 89-90, Naples and Procida, Italy, May 2015.
68) “Building Techniques & Materials at the Ptolemaic-Roman Red Sea Port of Berenike,
Egypt,” for Third International Workshop organized by KCHR: “Early Historic Port Cities:
Architectural Features, Techniques of Construction and Conservation with Special
Reference to Pattanam, India 23-27 November, 2015, Cherai Beach Resort, Kerala, India.
69) “Overview of Fieldwork at Berenike 1994-2015/Les fouilles archéologiques de Bérénice
1994-2015” for “Le Désert Oriental d’Égypte durant la période gréco-romaine: bilans
archéologiques,” March 30-31, 2016, Paris, France. Conference papers streamed online at
http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/jean-pierre-brun/symposium-2016-03-31-14h30.htm
and http://www.college-de-france.fr//video/en-jean-pierre-brun/2015-2016/22-col-brun-
sidebotham-20160331-en.mp4/(paper published on line in the collection « Institut des
civilisations », séries « Mondes méditerranéens antiques »
= http://books.openedition.org/cdf/4673) as “The Eastern Desert of Egypt during the
Graeco-Roman period: archaeological results. J.-P. Brun, T. Faucher, B. Redon, S.
Sidebotham, (eds.) (spring 2018).
70) Past, Present and Future at Berenike: Excavations at a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on Egypt’s
Red Sea Coast for Studies in Late Antiquity: University of California at Santa Barbara,
May 2017, Santa Barbara, CA.
71) Berenike, Egypt: An Economic, Political, Administrative, Religious and Military Overview
for The Roman Imperial City, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy, June
2017.
72) Construction Materials and Methods at Berenike : A Ptolemaic-Roman Port on Egypt’s
Red Sea Shore, Red Sea VIII : Coveted Treasure. The Economy of Natural Resources :
Extraction, Processing and Trade. International Conference, University of Warsaw 4-7 July
2017. Abstract published in Red Sea VIII : Coveted Treasure. The Economy of Natural
Resources : Extraction, Processing and Trade. International Conference, University of
Warsaw 4-7 July 2017: 17.
73) “Berenike’s Role in the Ancient Maritime Silk Road Based on Results of Recent
Excavations” for Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, University of California, Berkeley,
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Conference, “Across the High Seas: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Indian Ocean
Littoral,” May 4-5, 2018.
74) "Results of Fieldwork at Berenike (a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on Egypt's Red Sea Shore):
2013-2018." XXIV Roman Frontier Studies Conference, Viminacium, Serbia, September
2018. Abstract published in Limes XXIIII 24th International Limes Congress Serbia,
September 2018 Book of Abstracts (Belgrade: Institute of Archaeology, 2018): 152.
75) “Survey of the Berenike-Nile Roads 1987-2015: The Highways, Military Installations,
Mines and Quarries,” XXIV Roman Frontier Studies Conference, Viminacium, Serbia,
September 2018. Abstract published in Limes XXIIII 24th International Limes Congress
Serbia, September 2018 Book of Abstracts (Belgrade: Institute of Archaeology, 2018): 153.
Editorial Boards/reviewer board
1) Member of the editorial board for the Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology (New Delhi)
since 2009.
2) Independent reviewer for the journal Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (Warsaw)
since 2011.
3) Member of editorial board of Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal (University of California
Press), beginning in spring 2017.
Television Program & Other Major National/International Publicity
1) Principal role/part/presenter in program “When Rome Ruled Egypt” for Discovery TV
(sub-contractor Fulcrum TV in the UK). Filmed in August 2007. Program aired on
Discovery TV first on July 13-14, 2008 and on The Science Channel on March 23, and
April 26, 2009 and thereafter on various channels; also aired on trans-Atlantic flights
(Munich/Frankfurt-North America) on Lufthansa Airlines; has also aired elsewhere in
Europe.
2) In National Geographic (April 1996): 116-117.
3) “South Indians in Roman Egypt,” Frontline (India’s National Magazine from publishers of
The Hindu) (Vol. 27, issue 8, April 10-23, 2010).
4) In Los Angeles Times (June 12, 2002): A12-A13.
5) In The New York Times (July 9, 2002): F1 & F9.
6) In Newsweek Polska 44 (week of October 31 to November 6, 2011): 74-76.
7) In National Geographic Nederland-België edition (July 2012): 100-109.
8) In USA Today (December 1, 2016): http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/01/dogs-
monkeys-cats-2000-year-old-pet-cemetery-uncovered-egypt/94746128/
Websites dealing with Archaeological Fieldwork
1) http://micropublica.com/missions/the-berenike-project/
2) eBook microsite: http://flatandjuicy.com/city-of-elephants and our Excavation Project Site:
http://theberenikeproject.com – pending, for January 2015 (currently not public).
3) “Berenike-Berenice Troglodytica Homepage” which deals with the University of
Delaware-Leiden University/UCLA fieldwork in 1994-2001:
http://www.archbase.com/berenike/
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4) “Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej UW: Berenike (Egypt)” which deals with the
University of Delaware-University of Warsaw fieldwork in 2008-2011:
http://www.centrumarcheologii.uw.edu.pl/index.php?id=253&L=0
5) For the University of Delaware excavations and survey at the Roman emerald mines of
Sikait in Egypt’s Eastern Desert see the website: < http://www.egypt-
archaeology.com/Sikait.html>
Teaching Experience
1) Teaching assistant (three semesters: September 1978-December 1979, University of
Michigan)
a) History 200 (Near East and Greece)
b) History 201 (Roman Republic and Empire)
2) Assistant Professor, September 1981-August 1986, University of Delaware:
a) History 220/338 (lecture, Greek and Roman Sport and Recreation)
b) History 240/337 (lecture, Ancient Religions and Civilization)
c) History 340 (lecture, Ancient Near East and Greece)
d) History 341 (lecture, Ancient Rome)
e) History 440/470 (seminar, Buried Cities in Antiquity).
3) Associate Professor, History, September 1986-August 1996, University of Delaware:
a) History 220/338 (lecture, Greek and Roman Sport and Recreation)
b) History 240/337 (lecture, Ancient Religions and Civilization)
c) History 340 (lecture, Ancient Near East and Greece)
d) History 341 (lecture, Ancient Rome)
e) History 440/470 (seminar, Buried Cities in Antiquity).
f) History 360 (team taught seminar, The Classical World)
g) History 367-80 (team taught seminar, Geoarchaeology of Buried Cities).
4) Professor, History, September 1996 to present, University of Delaware:
a) History 337/243 (lecture, Ancient Religions and Civilization)
b) History 338 (lecture, Greek and Roman Sport and Recreation)
c) History 340 (lecture, ancient Near East and Greece)
d) History 341 (lecture, Ancient Rome)
e) History 480 (World History Seminar: World War II Through Oral Interviews)
f) MALS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies) 610 (graduate seminar: MALS 610
Force, Conflict and Change: World War II Through Oral Interviews)
g) HONORS291 (Freshman Honors Seminar: Famous Ancient Greek and Roman
Authors).
5) Nominated for “Excellence in Teaching Award” by the Faculty Senate Committee on Student
and Faculty Honors, University of Delaware, May 26, 2004.
6) Nominated for “Excellence in Teaching Award” by the Faculty Senate Committee on
Student and Faculty Honors, University of Delaware, June 5, 2006.
7) Nominated for “Excellence in Teaching Award” by Faculty Senate Committee on Student
and Faculty Honors, University of Delaware, June 30, 2014.
Supervision of Graduate Students
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Seven students have completed MA degrees in ancient history with me since 1987. These are:
Carol Maltenfort, Paul Manzini (continued on with PhD work at Ohio State University), John
Shean (continued on for PhD at University of Wisconsin), Donald Moore, Bradley Ver Ploeg,
David A. Cesarano (Director of thesis: “Bronze Age Piracy and Mycenaeans”); Frank J. Dunigan
(Director of MALS thesis synthesis: “The Time of My Life. Memoirs of a World War II Navy
Patrol-Bomber Pilot”).
Outside reader for PhD thesis by Catherine Arends, “The Roman military in Egypt: landscape,
community and culture,” Dept. of Classics and Ancient History, University of Western Australia,
Perth, Australia, 2004.
Outside reader for a PhD dissertation entitled “Traveling the Desert Edge: The Ptolemaic
Roadways and Regional Economy of Egypt’s Eastern Desert in the Fourth through First
Centuries BCE,” by Jennifer E. Gates, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Archaeology, at
the University of Michigan, 2005.
Member of reading panel and examination board (jury) two times for PhD thesis by Barbara
Tratsaert, “Roman Gold Mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. An Archaeological Study of the
Ancient Gold Mining Site of Wadi Bakariya and its Implications for Understanding Mining
Organisation,” Research Unit Classical Archaeology and Archaeology of Art, Ghent University,
Ghent, Belgium, 2014 and again in 2016 (unsuccessful both times, jury/committee unanimously
rejected her candidacy).
Member of committee (jury) for PhD dissertation by Arianne de Saxcé, “Commerce, transferts,
réseaux. Des échanges maritimes en mer érythrée entre le IIIe siècle av. n.è. et le VIIe siècle de
n.è,” Département d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, in the Sorbonne-Paris 4, école doctorale VI
and département AOROC (Archéologie d'Orient et d'Occident) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure,
University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, fall 2014-winter 2015.
Administered Italian language exam twice to graduate student L. Santoro in History Department,
spring 2004 (see number 36 under “service”).
Spring and fall 2007: Special readings for Emily Martz (for PhD qualifying exam in Roman
History), University of Delaware: spring and fall 2007.
Fall 2007: Prepared questions and evaluated written answers and oral exam in Roman History for
Emily Martz for PhD qualifying exams, University of Delaware: fall 2007.
Grants and Awards:
The following list does NOT include $249,450 raised from private donors and volunteers who
paid to participate in archaeological work in Egypt. Other totals are $264,305 from various
sources within the University of Delaware including the History Department, GUR, UDRF,
IPSS, Faculty Enrichment Research Awards, International Global Studies and Center for
Advanced Study grants; $819,265.94 from outside sources including National Geographic
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Society, American Philosophical Society, Dumbarton Oaks, National Endowment for the
Humanities, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Dorot Foundation, American Council of Learned
Societies, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (at NYU), Honor Frost Foundation (UK),
Egyptian Antiquities Conservation (USAID) grant, Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona
Community Foundation, and as a Research Fellow at the American Institute for Indian Studies.
Total funding raised for research since arriving at the University of Delaware in September 1981
= $1,333,020.94
1) Grant-in-aid from College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware for Underwater
Archaeological Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1982, $1,345.
2) General University Research Grant from University of Delaware for Underwater
Archaeological Excavations and Publication of Pottery, Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1983,
$3,000, declined.
3) University of Delaware Research Foundation grant for Underwater Archaeological
Excavations and Publication of Pottery, Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1983, $3,000.
4) University of Delaware Research Foundation grant for Underwater Archaeological
Excavations and Publication of Pottery, Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1984, $3,000.
5) Grant-in-aid from College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware for final
preparation of book manuscript for publication (Roman Economic Policy in the Erythra
Thalassa 30 B.C.-A.D. 217 (Mnemosyne supplement no. 91) (Leiden: Brill, 1986), $700.
6) Subvention from Provost of University of Delaware towards publication of book
manuscript (Roman Economic Policy in the Erythra Thalassa 30 B.C.-A.D. 217
(Mnemosyne supplement no. 91) (Leiden: Brill, 1986), $2,000.
7) General University Research Grant from University of Delaware for Archaeological
Survey of the Egyptian Red Sea Coast, December 1985-February 1986, $4,000.
8) American Philosophical Society grant for Research-Publication of Lamps-Ceramics from
Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1985, $2,700.
9) American Council of Learned Societies grant-in-aid for Archaeological Survey of the
Egyptian Red Sea Coast, December 1985-February 1986, $3,000.
10) Supplemental grant-in-aid, College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware for Red
Sea Coast of Egypt Survey (1985-1986), $1,345.
11) Grant from Dean of College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware for Red Sea
Coast of Egypt Survey (1985-1986), $3,500.
12) Title XII mini-grant, University of Delaware for Red Sea Coast of Egypt Survey (1985-
1986), $1,000.
13) Funding from University of Delaware Museum Studies Program for Archaeological
Survey-Excavations at 'Abu Sha'ar, Egypt, 1987, $300.
14) Funding from University of Delaware Museum Studies Program for Archaeological Survey
of Berenice (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1988, $100.
15) General University Grant from University of Delaware for Archaeological Survey of
Berenice (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1988, $6,000.
16) National Geographic Society grant for Archaeological Survey of Berenice (Red Sea Coast),
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Egypt, 1988, $4,500 (not used/returned).
17) International Programs mini-grant, University of Delaware for Archaeological Survey of
Berenice (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1988, $1,000.
18) Dumbarton Oaks grant for Archaeological Survey and Excavation at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea
Coast), Egypt, 1989, $4,000 (not used/returned).
19) Supplemental grant-in-aid, College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware and grant
from Provost of the University of Delaware for Archaeological Survey and Excavation at
'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1989, $2,500.
20) Research Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, Pondicherry-Arikamedu, India,
December 1989-February 1990, transportation, room, plus per diem ($35/day x 40 days =
$1,400).
21) Dumbarton Oaks grant for Archaeological Survey and Excavation at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea
Coast), Egypt, 1990, $4,200.
22) American Philosophical Society grant for Archaeological Survey and Excavation at 'Abu
Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1990, $3,500.
23) Funding from the University of Delaware Museum Studies Program for Archaeological
Survey-Excavation at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1991, $100.
24) Subvention from Provost of the University of Delaware towards publication of article:
“Survey of the 'Abu Sha'ar-Nile Road,” American Journal of Archaeology 95,4 (October
1991): 571-622, $1,000.
25) Research Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, Pondicherry-Arikamedu, India,
December 1990-February 1991, transportation, room plus per diem ($35/day x 40 days =
$1,400).
26) Funding from the Dean of the College of Arts and Science, from the Associate Provost for
Research, from the Provost, from the office of the President of the University of Delaware
for Archaeological Survey and Excavation at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1991,
$5,250.
27) International Programs mini-grant, University of Delaware for Archaeological Excavation
at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1992, $1,000.
28) Research Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, Pondicherry-Arikamedu, India,
December 1991-February 1992, transportation, room plus per diem ($30/day x 40 days =
$1,200).
29) General University Research Grant from University of Delaware for Archaeological
Excavation at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1992, $6,000.
30) Dumbarton Oaks grant for Archaeological Excavation at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast),
Egypt, 1992, $8,165.
31) General University Research Grant from University of Delaware for Archaeological
Excavations at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1993, $5,875.
32) Dumbarton Oaks grant for Archaeological Survey and Excavation at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea
Coast), Egypt, 1993, $10,342.50.
33) Funding from University of Delaware Museum Studies Program for Archaeological Work
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at 'Abu Sha'ar (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1993, $100.
34) National Geographic Society grant for Archaeological Survey, Mapping, Excavation of
Berenice (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, winter 1994, $24,000.
35) Dean College of Arts and Science University of Delaware grant-in-aid for Archaeological
Survey, Mapping, Excavation of Berenice (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, winter 1993-1994,
$1,500.
36) Funding from the Provost of the University of Delaware for Archaeological Survey,
Mapping, Excavation of Berenice (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, winter 1993-1994, $10,500.
37) American Philosophical Society grant for Archaeological Survey and Excavation at
Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1995, $4,500.
38) Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant for Archaeological Survey and Excavation at Berenike
(Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1995, $10,000.
39) University of Delaware Matching Equipment Grant from Vice Provost for Research for
Archaeological Survey and Excavation at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1995, $8,400.
40) National Geographic Society supplemental grant for Archaeological Survey, Mapping,
Excavation of Berenice (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, winter 1995, $8,720.
41) Funding from University of Delaware Museum Studies Program for Archaeological
Survey, Mapping, Excavation of Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, winter 1995, $100.
42) Funding from office of the Dean, University of Delaware for Archaeological Survey,
Mapping, Excavation of Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, winter 1995, $3,000.
43) Funding from Dean, College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware for
Archaeological Survey, Mapping, Excavation of Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1996-
1998, $10,000.
44) National Geographic Society grant for Berenike and Indo-Roman Trade: Archaeology of a
Red Sea Port, 1995-1996, $24,000.
45) Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant for Archaeological Survey-Excavations at Berenike
(Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1995-1996, $5,000.
46) International Programs and Special Sessions mini-grant, University of Delaware for
Archaeological Survey-Excavations at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 1995-1996,
$1,000.
47) Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant for Archaeological Survey-Excavations at Berenike
(Red Sea coast), Egypt, 1996-1997, $10,000.
48) National Geographic Society grant for Berenike and Indo-Roman Trade: Archaeology of a
Red Sea Port, 1996-1997, $25,000.
49) International Programs and Special Sessions, Dean of the College of Arts and Science and
the History Department, University of Delaware for conference papers in Rome, Italy and
Zalau, Romania in summer 1997, $2,153.
50) Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant for Archaeological Survey-Excavations at Berenike
(Red Sea Coast, Egypt), 1998, $10,000.
51) National Geographic Society grant for Berenike: Impact of a Changing Coastline on an
Ancient Port, 1998, $37,036.
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52) International Programs and Special Sessions, Dean of the College of Arts and Science and
the History Department, University of Delaware for conference paper in Florence, Italy, in
summer 1998, $1,200.
53) National Geographic Society grant for Berenike: Impact of a Changing Coastline on an
Ancient Port, 1999, $35,000.
54) College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware for Berenike: Impact of a Changing
Coastline on an Ancient Port, 1999, $7,500.
55) Dorot Foundation for Berenike: Impact of a Changing Coastline on an Ancient Port, 1999,
$5,000.
56) International Programs and Special Sessions mini-grant, University of Delaware for
Berenike: Impact of a Changing Coastline on an Ancient Port, 1998/99, $1,000.
57) Fellowship in the Center for Advanced Study, University of Delaware for academic year
1999-2000, full salary.($89,000)
58) International Programs and Special Sessions, College of Arts and Science and History
Department, University of Delaware $1,350 for directing panel on "South-Asian
Archaeological Finds from Berenike, a Hellenistic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of
Egypt," for the XV International Conference of the European Association of South Asian
Archaeologists, in Leiden, the Netherlands in summer 1999.
59) American Philosophical Society grant for Archaeological Survey and Excavation at
Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, 2000, $6,000.
60) National Geographic Society grant for Berenike: commerce and ethnicity in an ancient Red
Sea port, 2000, $37,009.
61) International Programs and Special Sessions and History Department, University of
Delaware for delivery of paper "The Roman Empire's Southeastern-Most Frontier: Recent
Discoveries at Berenike and Environs (Eastern Desert of Egypt) 1998-2000," for XVIIIth
International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, in Amman, Jordan, September 2000,
$1,677.
62) Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant for Berenike 2000-2001: Architectural and Small Finds
Conservation at a Ptolemaic-Roman Red Sea Port in Egypt, $10,000.
63) College of Arts and Science and History Department, University of Delaware, subvention
for publication of Berenike 1998 volume spring 2001, $2,275.
64) National Endowment for the Humanities grant for Study of the Mediterranean-Red Sea
Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Excavations at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, for
winters 2001/2-2002/3, $100,000 (RZ-20734-01)(no permit given to work at Berenike for
several years, balance of funds returned).
65) Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant for "Berenike winter 2001-2002: Small Finds
Conservation at a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt, $5,000.
66) Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant for Conservation work at Sikait, June 2002, $1,000.
67) National Geographic Society grant for Sikait: Technology and ethnicity at a Roman
Emerald Mine in Egypt, May-June 2002, $33,123.
68) Funding from University of Delaware Museum Studies Program for Archaeological
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Excavations and Survey at Sikait for winter 2003-2004, $100.
69) General University Research Grant from the University of Delaware for Underwater
Archaeological Excavation: A Roman Shipwreck in the Red Sea, summer 2004, $6,000
(money used for fieldwork in Yemen as permits denied by Egyptian military).
70) National Geographic Society (Expeditions Council) grant for Fury Shoal: Underwater
Excavation of a Roman Shipwreck in the Red Sea, summer 2004, $10,000 (money not
used/returned due to lack of permits from the Egyptian military).
71) American Philosophical Society grant for Underwater Archaeological Excavation of a
Roman Shipwreck in the Red Sea, summer 2004, $4,000 (money not used/returned due to
lack of permits from the Egyptian military).
72) Egyptian Antiquities Conservation (USAID) Grant for architectural Conservation of
Selected Structures at the Roman Beryl/Emerald Mining City of Sikait (Eastern Desert),
Egypt, 2005-2006, Egyptian pounds (LE) 1,531,118 (at LE 5.83 = $ 1 = $262,627.44)
(money not used/returned due to lack of permits from the Egyptian military).
73) International Programs and Special Sessions, University of Delaware travel grant to deliver
paper “Some Ptolemaic-Early Roman Gold Mining Settlements in the Eastern Desert of
Egypt” for the first International Conference on the Geology of the Tethys, Cairo
University, Cairo, Egypt, November 2005, $500.
74) Department of History, University of Delaware travel grant to excavate in Petra, Jordan in
summer 2007, April 2007, $1,460.
75) Department of History, University of Delaware travel grant to Jurash (‘Asir Province),
Saudi Arabia, spring 2008 for work in summer 2008, $2,500.
76) Department of History, University of Delaware travel grant to Jurash (‘Asir Province),
Saudi Arabia, spring 2009 for work in summer 2009, $2,500.
77) College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware Faculty Enrichment Research Award
for archaeological fieldwork in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, spring 2009 for work in summer
2009, $750.
78) Grant from Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, AZ,
December 2009, $4,403, for Archaeological Project at Berenike, Egypt, January-February
2010.
79) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York University), December 2009,
$5,000, for Archaeological Project at Berenike, Egypt, January-February 2010.
80) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York University), October 2010, $7,500,
for Archaeological Project at Berenike, Egypt, January-February 2011.
81) Faculty Research Enrichment Grant, November 2010, $750 for archaeological research at
Berenike and archaeological survey of the surrounding Eastern Desert of Egypt in January-
February 2011. Matched ($750) by History Department, University of Delaware.
82) Grant from Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, AZ,
March 2011, $4,327, for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, January-February
2011.
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83) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York University), October 2011, $7,500,
for Archaeological Project at Berenike, Egypt, January-February 2012.
84) Faculty Research Enrichment Grant, November 2011, $750 for archaeological research at
Berenike and archaeological survey of the surrounding Eastern Desert of Egypt in January-
February 2012. Matched ($750) by History Department, University of Delaware.
85) Grant from Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, AZ,
March 2012, $4,258 (retroactive) for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, January-
February 2012.
86) Department of History, University of Delaware, spring 2012, $875 to deliver paper at the
XXII International Congress of Roman Frontier (Limes) Studies, Ruse, Bulgaria,
September 2012.
87) Dean of the College of Arts and Science, spring 2012, $750 to deliver paper at the XXII
International Congress of Roman Frontier (Limes) Studies, Ruse, Bulgaria, September
2012.
88) Department of History, University of Delaware, spring 2012, $1,000 for archaeological
excavations at Berenike, Egypt in January 2013.
89) Grant from Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, AZ,
November 2012, $4,300 for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, January 2013.
90) Faculty Research Enrichment Grant, December 2012, $750 for archaeological research at
Berenike and archaeological survey of the surrounding Eastern Desert of Egypt in January-
February 2013.
91) Grant from Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, AZ,
October 2013, $4,400 for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, winter 2013-2014.
92) Department of History, University of Delaware, spring 2013, $1,000 for archaeological
excavations at Berenike, Egypt in winter 2013-2014.
93) Honor Frost Foundation, December 2013 UK £10,000 (US $15,951) for Maritime
Archaeology at the Ptolemaic-Roman Red Sea Port of Berenike, Egypt (winter 2013-2014).
94) Department of History, University of Delaware, spring 2014, $2,000 for archaeological
excavations at Berenike, Egypt in winter 2014-2015.
95) Honor Frost Foundation, June 2014 UK £10,000 (US $16,430) for “Maritime Archaeology
at the Ptolemaic-Roman Red Sea Port of Berenike, Egypt (winter 2014-2015).”
96) International Travel Award, University of Delaware $1,000 for Archaeological Excavations
at Berenike, Egypt winter 2014-2015.
97) Grant from Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, AZ,
November 2014, $4,500 for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, winter 2014-2015.
98) Institute for Global Studies –Global Exchange Program grant, University of Delaware,
$7,000 for “Ancient Roman Ships on the Red Sea Shore: Archaeological Excavations at
Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt” December 2014 for archaeological project at Berenike,
Egypt, winter 2014-2015.
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99) College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware, $7,000 for “Ancient Roman Ships on
the Red Sea Shore: Archaeological Excavations at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt”
December 2014 for archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, winter 2014-2015.
100) Exxon-Mobil matching grant $500 for archaeological excavations at Berenike, Egypt in
winter 2014-2015.
101) Gfoeller Renaissance Foundation grant of $10,000 for “Archaeological Excavations at
Berenike winter 2015-2016,” April 2015 for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt,
winter 2015-2016 (money promised, but not received).
102) Center for Global Area Studies grant of $2,000 for “Digging up the Past: Archaeological
Excavations at the Global Emporium of Berenike a Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea
Coast of Egypt,” April 2015 for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, winter 2015-
2016.
103) Department of History, University of Delaware, spring 2014, $2,000 for archaeological
excavations at Berenike, Egypt in winter 2015-2016.
104) Department of History, University of Delaware, spring 2015, $1,000 to support an
international conference co-hosted by The Collège of France, the Mission archéologique du
Désert Oriental, the centre Hisoma (CNRS, UMR 5189, Lyon) and the University of
Delaware entitled “The Current State of Archaeological Research on the Eastern Desert of
Egypt during Antiquity.”
105) College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware, spring & fall 2015, $1,775 to
support an international conference co-hosted by The Collège of France, the Mission
archéologique du Désert Oriental, the centre Hisoma (CNRS, UMR 5189, Lyon) and the
University of Delaware entitled “The Current State of Archaeological Research on the
Eastern Desert of Egypt during Antiquity.”
106) Research Office, University of Delaware, spring 2015, $1,000 to support an international
conference co-hosted by The Collège of France, the Mission archéologique du Désert
Oriental, the centre Hisoma (CNRS, UMR 5189, Lyon) and the University of Delaware
entitled “The Current State of Archaeological Research on the Eastern Desert of Egypt
during Antiquity.”
107) Office of the Provost, University of Delaware, fall 2015, $1,775 to support an international
conference co-hosted by The Collège of France, the Mission archéologique du Désert
Oriental, the centre Hisoma (CNRS, UMR 5189, Lyon) and the University of Delaware
entitled “The Current State of Archaeological Research on the Eastern Desert of Egypt
during Antiquity.”
108) Exxon-Mobil matching grant $1,000 for archaeological excavations at Berenike, Egypt in
winter 2015-2016.
109) Grant from Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, AZ,
November 2014, $4,624 for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, winter 2015-2016.
110) Grant from Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, AZ,
December 2016, $4,700 for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, winter 2016-2017.
111) Grant from Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware, March 2017,
$1,800 subvention in support of publication of Steven E. Sidebotham, Jennifer Gates-
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Foster and Jean-Louis Rivard, eds., contributors, The Archaeological Survey of the Desert
Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley: Expeditions by the University of Michigan
and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987-2015 American
Schools of Oriental Research-Archaeological Research Series (Boston: American Schools
of Oriental Research): forthcoming.
112) Grant from Seeger Family Fund held by the Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, AZ,
October 2017, $4,000 for Archaeological project at Berenike, Egypt, winter 2018.
113) Grant from Dean of College and Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware for World War
II Oral Interview Project, October 2017, $5,000.
114) Grant from Center for Global Area Studies, University of Delaware April 2018 for
Archaeological project at Berenike winter 2019, $1,000.
115) Department of History, University of Delaware, May 2018 for archaeological excavations
at Berenike, Egypt in winter 2019, $2,000.
116) Office of the Provost, University of Delaware, October 2018, for archaeological
excavations at Berenike, Egypt in winter 2019, $6,000.
117) Office of the Dean, University of Delaware, October 2018, for archaeological excavations
at Berenike, Egypt in winter 2019, $6,000.
118) Seeger Family Fund of the Arizona Community Foundation, January 2019, for
archaeological excavations at Berenike, Egypt in winter 2019, $4,500.
119) Department of History, University of Delaware, May 2019, for archaeological excavations
at Berenike (Egypt) in winter 2020, $2,000.
Archaeological Field Experience
1) 1972, Buccino, Italy, Prof. S.L. Dyson, Wesleyan University, CT, trench supervisor.
2) 1973, Halieis, Greece, Prof. M.H. Jameson, University of Pennsylvania, trench supervisor
of underwater excavations.
3) 1974, Cyrene, Libya, Prof. D. White, University of Pennsylvania, trench supervisor.
4) 1975, Carthage, Tunisia, Prof. J.H. Humphrey, University of Michigan, trench supervisor.
5) 1976, Carthage, Tunisia, Prof. J.H. Humphrey, University of Michigan, trench supervisor.
6) 1978, Venosa, Italy, Prof. S.P. Vinson, University of Arizona, member of Via Appia survey
team.
7) 1979, Forenza, Italy, Prof. S.P. Vinson, University of Arizona, member of Via Appia
survey team.
8) Winter 1980, Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt, Profs. D.S. Whitcomb, Field Museum of Chicago
and J.H. Johnson, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, trench supervisor and
photographer.
9) 1980, Zafar, North Yemen, Mr. R.D. Tindel, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago,
member of survey team and photographer.
10) 1982, Caesarea Maritima, Israel, Profs. A. Raban, Haifa University, R.L. Hohlfelder,
University, et al., member of underwater excavation team, cataloguer of finds.
11) 1983, Caesarea Maritima, Israel, Profs. A. Raban, Haifa University, R.L. Hohlfelder,
University of Colorado, et al., member of underwater excavation team, area supervisor for
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land excavations, cataloguer of finds.
12) 1984, Caesarea Maritima, Israel, Profs. A. Raban, Haifa University, R.L. Hohlfelder,
University of Colorado, et al., area supervisor for land excavations, member of underwater
excavation team.
13) 1985, Caesarea Maritima, Israel, Profs. A. Raban, Haifa University, R.L. Hohlfelder,
University of Colorado, et al., member of staff of study season.
14) 1985, Carthage, Tunisia, Prof. N.J. Norman, University of Georgia, trench supervisor,
numismatist.
15) 1986, Karystos (Euboea), Greece, Prof. M. Wallace, University of Toronto, Dr. D. Keller,
Indiana University, trench supervisor and member of survey team.
16) 1987, Abu Sha'ar, Egypt, director-photographer of University of Delaware archaeological
survey and excavations.
17) Winter 1989, Abu Sha'ar-Qena, Egypt Eastern Desert Survey, director-photographer of
University of Delaware survey.
18) Winter 1989-1990, Arikamedu, India, Dr. V. Begley, University of Pennsylvania, field
supervisor-photographer of excavations.
19) 1990, Abu Sha'ar, Egypt, director-photographer of University of Delaware archaeological
survey and excavations.
20) Winter 1990-1991, Arikamedu, India, Dr. V. Begley, University of Pennsylvania, field
supervisor-photographer of excavations.
21) 1991, Abu Sha'ar, Egypt, director-photographer of University of Delaware archaeological
survey and excavations.
22) Winter 1991-1992, Arikamedu, India, Dr. V. Begley, University of Pennsylvania, field
supervisor-photographer of excavations.
23) 1992, Abu Sha'ar, Egypt, director-photographer of University of Delaware survey and
excavations.
24) Winter 1993, Berenike-Nile Road Eastern Desert, Egypt survey, director-photographer of
University of Delaware survey.
25) 1993, Abu Sha'ar, Egypt, director-photographer of University of Delaware archaeological
survey and excavations.
26) Winter 1994, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey
of University of Delaware-Leiden University (The Netherlands, co-director: W.Z.
Wendrich) excavations.
27) Winter 1995, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey
of University of Delaware-Leiden University (The Netherlands, co-director: W.Z.
Wendrich) excavations.
28) Winter 1995-1996, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of
survey of University of Delaware-Leiden University (The Netherlands, co-director: W.Z.
Wendrich) excavations.
29) 1996, Via Nova Hadriana, Eastern Desert of Egypt survey, director, photographer of
University of Delaware survey.
30) Winter 1996-1997, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of
survey of University of Delaware-Leiden University (The Netherlands, co-director: W.Z.
Wendrich) excavations.
31) 1997, Via Nova Hadriana, Eastern Desert of Egypt survey, director, photographer of
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University of Delaware survey.
32) Winter 1998, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey
of University of Delaware-Leiden University (the Netherlands, co-director: W.Z.
Wendrich) excavations.
33) 1998, Via Nova Hadriana, Eastern Desert of Egypt survey, director, photographer of
University of Delaware survey.
34) Winter 1998-1999, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of
survey of University of Delaware-Leiden University (the Netherlands, co-director: W.Z.
Wendrich) excavations.
35) 1999, Via Nova Hadriana, Eastern Desert of Egypt survey, director, photographer of
University of Delaware survey.
36) 1999, Marsa Nakari, Egypt, Prof. J.A. Seeger, Northern Arizona University, technical and
field advisor to project.
37) Winter 1999-2000, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of
survey of University of Delaware-Leiden University (the Netherlands, co-director: W.Z.
Wendrich) excavations.
38) 2000, Marsa Nakari-Nile Road, Eastern Desert of Egypt survey, director, photographer of
University of Delaware survey.
39) Winter 2000-2001, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of
survey of University of Delaware-Leiden University (the Netherlands)/UCLA (co-director:
W.Z. Wendrich) excavations.
40) 2001, Sikait (Eastern Desert of Egypt), director, photographer of University of Delaware
survey.
41) 2002, Sikait (Eastern Desert of Egypt), director, photographer of University of Delaware
excavations and survey.
42) 2002, Marsa Nakari, Egypt, Prof. J.A. Seeger, Northern Arizona University, technical and
field advisor to project.
43) Winter 2002-2003, Sikait (Eastern Desert of Egypt), co-director, photographer of
University of Delaware excavations and survey.
44) 2004, Wadi Abu Diyeiba (Eastern Desert of Egypt), co-director of survey team, University
of Toledo (Prof. J.A. Harrell)-University of Delaware survey.
45) Winter 2004, Aqiq-Adobana-Bahdur (Red Sea coast), Sudan, archaeological
reconnaissance, member of survey team, Northern Arizona University survey (Director: Dr.
J.A. Seeger).
46) Winter 2006, Soqotra Island (Indian Ocean), Yemen, director of survey and photographer,
University of Delaware.
47) Winter 2006, Survey of east bank of the Nile, Nuri-Hamdab (Fourth Cataract), Sudan,
director of survey team and photographer, University of Delaware.
48) Winter 2007, Survey of the southern Tihama (Red Sea coast of Yemen), director of survey
team and photographer, University of Delaware.
49) 2007, Hellenistic Petra Project-Excavations at Petra, Jordan, team member, photographer,
numismatist, University of Miami, Prof. D.F. Graf, director.
50) 2008, Kerala Council for Historical Research/Muziris Heritage Project Excavations at
Pattanam/Muziris, (Kerala) India, member of excavation team, Dr. P.J. Cherian, director.
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51) 2008, Petra Colonnaded Street Survey, Petra, Jordan, Director and photographer of survey,
University of Delaware.
52) 2008, Jurash (‘Asir Province), Saudi Arabia, member of survey-excavation team,
photographer, consortium of University of Miami, Princeton University, University of
Delaware, Whitman College, Prof. D.F. Graf, University of Miami, overall director.
53) Winter 2009, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey
of University of Delaware-University of Warsaw/Polish Centre of Mediterranean
Archaeology (I. Zych, co-director) excavations.
54) 2009, Jurash (‘Asir Province), Saudi Arabia, member of survey-excavation team,
photographer, consortium of University of Miami, Princeton University, University of
Delaware, Whitman College, Prof. D.F. Graf, University of Miami, overall director.
55) Winter 2010, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey
of University of Delaware-University of Warsaw/Polish Centre of Mediterranean
Archaeology (I. Zych, co-director) excavations.
56) Winter 2011, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey
of University of Delaware-Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology/University of
Warsaw (I. Zych, co-director) excavations.
57) Winter 2012, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey
of University of Delaware-Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology/University of
Warsaw (I. Zych, co-director) excavations.
58) Winter 2013, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey
of University of Delaware-Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology/University of
Warsaw (I. Zych, co-director) excavations.
59) 2013, Hellenistic Petra Project - Survey at Petra, Jordan, member of survey team, Prof.
D.F. Graf (director), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
60) winter 2013-2014, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of
survey of University of Delaware-Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology/University
of Warsaw (I. Zych, co-director) excavations.
61) winter 2014-2015, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of
survey of University of Delaware-Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology/University
of Warsaw (I. Zych, co-director) excavations.
62) 2017, Ba’aja, Jordan, field director of excavations and member of survey team, Prof. D.F.
Graf (principle investigator and overall director) of University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
63) winter 2018, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey of
University of Delaware-Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology/University of
Warsaw (I. Zych, co-director) excavations.
64) March 2018, Survey of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, member of survey team, Dr. James A.
Harrell (professor emeritus, University of Toledo), director of survey.
65) winter 2019, Berenike, Egypt, co-director, photographer, numismatist, director of survey of
University of Delaware-Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology/University of
Warsaw (I. Zych, co-director), Leiden University (O.E. Kaper), University of Heidelberg
(R. Ast) excavations.
Service to the Profession
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1) Referee for National Geographic for a map which appeared: R.L. Hohlfelder, “Herod the
Great's City on the Sea,” National Geographic Magazine February 1987: 267.
2) Referee for National Geographic for proposals by D.P.S. Peacock for funding an
archaeological project at Mons Claudianus, Egypt in 1989 and 1990.
3) Referee for National Geographic for proposal by R.L. Hohlfelder for funding an
archaeological project at Paphos, Cyprus in 1992.
4) Member-at-Large delegate to the annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of
America, New Orleans, LA, December 1992.
5) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by G.F. Bass for funding a multi-
national underwater archaeological survey of ancient shipwrecks in 1993.
6) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by N.J. Norman for funding an
archaeological project at Carthage, Tunisia, 1993.
7) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by S.T. Parker for funding an
archaeological project at 'Aqaba, Jordan, 1994.
8) Referee for National Endowment for the Humanities for proposal by S.T. Parker for
funding an archaeological project at 'Aqaba, Jordan, 1994.
9) Referee for Dumbarton Oaks for proposal by S.T. Parker for funding an archaeological
project at 'Aqaba, Jordan, 1994.
10) Member-at-Large delegate to the annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of
American, Atlanta, GA, December 1994.
11) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by G.R. Rapp, Jr. for funding for an
epigraphic survey near El Kab, Egypt, 1994-1995.
12) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by S. Wachsmann for funding for
underwater archaeological excavation of a Byzantine shipwreck off the Mediterranean
coast of Israel, 1995.
13) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by G.R. Rapp, Jr. and R.D. Rothe for
funding for an expedition in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1995.
14) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by R.D. Ballard for funding for using
advanced technologies for deep water excavation of ancient ships, 1996.
15) Referee for Princeton University Press of a book manuscript by L. Casson, The Periplus
Maris Erythraei Introduction with Text, Translation, and Commentary (Princeton, 1989).
16) Referee for Dumbarton Oaks Press of a book manuscript edited by S.T. Parker, The Roman
Frontier in Central Jordan Final Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989.
17) Referee for special issue of Aramco World: Retracing the Spice Routes.
18) Referee for "Periplus Maris Erythraei 4: Where was the Port of Adulis?," Bulletin of the
American Schools of Oriental Research.
19) Referee for "A Note on Iotabe and Several other Islands in the Red Sea," Bulletin of the
American Schools of Oriental Research.
20) Referee for "Coins and the Field Archaeologist: Numismatic Finds as Artifacts,"
Archaeological News.
21) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by R. Fattovich for archaeological
survey in Eritrea (East Africa), 1997.
22) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by S.T. Parker for archaeological
excavation and survey at Aqaba, Jordan, 1998.
23) Evaluator for National Endowment for the Humanities for proposal by S.T. Parker for
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archaeological excavation and survey at Aqaba, Jordan, 1998.
24) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by C.A.H. Ward for underwater
archaeological excavation of an eighteenth century shipwreck off the Red Sea coast of
Egypt, 1998.
25) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by R. Ballard for deep-sea
archaeological explorations of ancient shipwrecks, 1998.
26) Evaluator for National Geographic Society for proposal by C. Meyer for archaeological
survey of a Byzantine gold mining settlement in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1999.
27) Referee for Routledge Press of a book manuscript by G.K. Young, The Long-Distance
"International" Commerce in the Roman East 31 B.C.-A.D. 305 (London- New York:
Routledge, 2001).
28) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by R.D. Rothe for archaeological
survey in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1999.
29) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by S.T. Parker for archaeological
excavations at Aqaba, Jordan, 2000.
30) Referee for Yale University Press of a book manuscript by R.B. Jackson, At Empire's
Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier (New Haven-London: Yale University Press,
2002).
31) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by D.T. Potts for archaeological
survey of Socotra Island, Yemen, 2000-2001.
32) Referee for National Geographic Society for proposal by S.T. Parker for archaeological
excavations at Aqaba, Jordan, 2002.
33) Referee for "A Nabataean/Roman Domestic Complex at the Red Sea Port of Aila," Bulletin
of the American Schools of Oriental Studies, in April 2002.
34) Archaeological Survey of Red Sea Coast of Egypt between Marsa Alam and Ras Benas for
the Tourist Development Authority of Egypt, June 2002.
35) Compiled gazetteer of ancient sites in a portion of the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Wadi
Gemal Project) for the Tourist Development Authority of Egypt, April 2003.
36) Referee for two book proposals by Sunil Gupta, Roman Egypt to Peninsular India,
Archaeology of Early Sea Trade in the Indian Ocean, 1st Century BC-3rd Century AD and
Archaeo-Historical Idea of the Indian Ocean: A Collection of Papers for Cambridge
University Press.
37) Referee for “Excavations at Marsa Nakari on the Coast of the Red Sea,” for Journal of the
American Research Center in Egypt.
38) Referee for “A Description of Eastern Desert Ware from Marsa Nakari (Nechesia?) and
Sikait (in the Mons Smaragdus area) followed by some ideas about the tools used for its
decoration,” for Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt.
39) Referee for “Ancient Gold Extraction at Bir Umm Fawakhir,” for Journal of the American
Research Center in Egypt.
40) Member dissertation committee for C.W. Arends, The Roman Military in Egypt:
Landscape, Community and Culture. PhD dissertation presented to the School of
Humanities (Classics and Ancient History), The University of Western Australia March
2004 (see above under teaching).
41) Referee for B. Saidel, “The Bedouin Tent: Ethnoarchaeological Portal to Antiquity or
Modern Construct?,” for Current Anthropology.
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42) Referee for the Research Council of Norway for a proposal by Prof. K. Krzywinski for a
project on ecological and environmental change in an arid land (southern Egypt/Northern
Sudan) to be conducted 2005-2009.
43) Referee (see 36 above) for sample chapters for a book by Sunil Gupta, Roman Egypt to
Peninsular India, Archaeology for Early Sea Trade in the Indian Ocean, 1st Century BC-3rd
Century AD for Cambridge University Press.
44) Referee/reviewer of Textbook Chapter 1: “The Beginnings of Civilization 10,000-2000
B.C.E.” in The West: Encounters and Transformations (New York: Longman Publishers).
45) Member dissertation committee for J.E. Gates, Traveling the Desert Edge: The Ptolemaic
Roadways and Regional Economy of Egypt’s Eastern Desert in the Fourth through First
Centuries BCE. PhD dissertation for the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and
Archaeology, The University of Michigan, 2005 (see above under teaching).
46) Referee for “Stratigraphy and Structural Context of Arikamedu,” for Antiquity.
47) Referee for American Philosophical Society for a proposal by Prof. S. Onstine for “Theban
Tomb 57 Documentation and Restoration,” to be conducted in May-August 2006.
48) Referee for American Philosophical Society for a proposal by Prof. W.B. Hafford for “Tell
es-Sweyhat Temple Project, Syria, 2150 B.C.E.,” to be conducted in July-August 2006.
49) Referee for American Philosophical Society for a proposal by Dr. R. Oetjen for “Greek
identity in the Hellenistic Black Sea region,” to be conducted in May-June 2006.
50) Referee for P. Sheehan, Restoration and Preservation of Egyptian Antiquities Project:
Babylon of Egypt. The Making of Old Cairo. An Archaeological investigation into the
ancient nucleus of the medieval and modern city for American Research Center in
Egypt/Egyptian Antiquities Project (USAID Grant No. 263-G-00-93-00089-00)(April-
May, 2006).
51) Referee for J.P. Roth, The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C. – A.D.
235)(Leiden: Brill, 1999) for University of Texas Press reprint edition, in spring 2007.
52) Referee for the Research Council of Norway for a proposal by Dr. E. Seland on Sea-Port-
Hinterland: Diachronic and comparative perspectives on ancient Red Sea Trade to be
conducted in 2008-2010, October 2007.
53) Referee for paper by John P. Cooper, “Egypt’s Nile-Red Sea canals: chronology, location,
seasonality and function,” for Proceedings of Red Sea IV - Connected Hinterlands. The
Fourth International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea Region Centre for Maritime
Archaeology, University of Southampton 25th-26th September 2008, April 2009.
54) Referee for paper by Dario Nappo, “Roman policy in the Red Sea between Anastasius and
Justinian,” for Proceedings of Red Sea IV - Connected Hinterlands. The Fourth
International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea Region Centre for Maritime
Archaeology, University of Southampton 25th-26th September 2008, April 2009.
55) Referee for paper by Hans Barnard, “The Identification of the Ancient Pastoral Nomads on
the North-Western Red Sea Littoral,” for Proceedings of Red Sea IV - Connected
Hinterlands. The Fourth International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea Region
Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton 25th-26th September 2008,
April 2009.
56) Referee for paper by Dario Nappo, “On the location of Leuke Kome,” for The Journal of
Roman Archaeology, May 2009.
57) Referee for paper (author anonymous) “L’armée et les bains en Égypte hellénistique et
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romaine,” for Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Archéologie Orientale, June 2009.
58) Referee for paper (author anonymous) “Seven Remarks on Bernike [sic!]-Coptas [sic!)
Road οδος [sic!] Βερενικης [sic!] in the Roman Period,” for Mouseion: Journal of the
Classical Association of Canada, May 2010.
59) Referee for book prospectus by Aaron W. Hughes entitled Muslim Identities: An
Introduction for Oxford University Press, November 2010.
60) Referee for paper by M.D. Bukharin, “The ‘Endpoint of Return’ and the Location of
Ptolemais of the Hunts in the ‘Periplus of the Erythraean Sea’,” for Arabian Archaeology
and Epigraphy, April 2011.
61) Referee for grant proposal to the British Academy from J.D. Hill at the British Museum for
archaeological work in Red Sea, April 2011.
62) Referee for grant proposal to the Egypt Exploration Society by A. Kotarba-Morley for
geological coring at Berenike, Egypt, November 2011.
63) Referee for paper by Alexia Pavan, Heidrun Schenk, “Crossing the Indian Ocean before the
Periplus: pottery assemblages in comparison. The sites of Sumhuram (Oman) and
Tissamaharama (Sri Lanka),” for Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, March 2012.
64) Referee for paper (authors’ names withheld) entitled “Pliny’s Freedman of Annius
Plocamus and the Diplomatic Overtures of the King of Taprobanê to the Roman Emperor
in AD 40-41,” for Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, November 2012.
65) Referee for monograph manuscript by C. Meyer, et al., Bir Umm Fawakhir Excavations
1999-2001 for Oriental Institute, University of Chicago Press in February 2013.
66) Member of the American Center of Oriental Studies/National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship Grant Committee for annual meeting in Richmond, VA in March
2013.
67) Referee for paper by Eivind Heldaas Seland entitled “The Archaeology of Indian Ocean
trade 300 BCE-700 CE: From Rome beyond the imperial frontiers to Indian Ocean
exchange” for Journal of Archaeological Research in May 2013.
68) Referee for volume by A. Krzyżanowska, S. Skowronek and M. Galikowski, Studia
Palmyreńskie XIII. Coins from Palmyra (Polish Excavations 1959-2001). Warsaw: Polish
Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw in December 2013.
69) Referee for article by J. Cooper and C. Zazzaro, “An Archaeological Survey of the Farasan
Islands, Saudi Arabia,” for Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy in July 2014.
70) Member of reading panel and examination board (jury) for PhD thesis by Barbara
Tratsaert, “Roman Gold Mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. An Archaeological Study
of the Ancient Gold Mining Site of Wadi Bakariya and its Implications for Understanding
Mining Organisation,” Research Unit Classical Archaeology and Archaeology of Art,
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2014 (see above under teaching).
71) Member of committee (jury) for PhD dissertation by Ariane de Saxcé, “Commerce,
transferts, réseaux. Des échanges maritimes en mer érythrée entre le IIIe siècle av. n.è. et le
VIIe siècle de n.è,” Département d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, in the Sorbonne-Paris 4,
école doctorale VI and département AOROC (Archéologie d'Orient et d'Occident) at the
Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, fall 2014-winter
2015 (see above under teaching).
72) Referee for book manuscript by B.P. Anderson, Negotiating Identity in Nabataean Arabia
for Cambridge University Press, spring-summer 2015.
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73) Member of Scientific Committee for conference: The Red Sea Project VII.
The Red Sea and the Gulf: Two Alternative Maritime Routes in the Development of Global
Economy, from the Late Prehistory to Modern Times. The seventh international conference
on the peoples of the Red Sea region and their environment. Università di Napoli
L’Orientale 26th - 30th May 2015.
74) Referee for Scientific Evaluation Committee “Human-environment interactions” of the
French National Research Agency (ANR) for a proposal from G. Tallet, J.-P. Bravard, R.S.
Bagnall, S. Ikram and C. Rossi: “CRISIS Réponses impériales et provinciales aux défis
environnementaux et économiques à la frontière de l'Empire (Désert égyptien, Ier-VIe s.
p.C./ Imperial and provincial responses to environmental and economic challenges on
Rome’s frontier in the Egyptian desert (First-Sixth c. AD),” June 2015.
75) Referee for the National Geographic Society for a proposal by Rossi, Corinna
Project Title: “Searching for Lost Agriculture. The real reasons behind the construction of
the Late Roman fortified settlement of Umm al-Dabadib (Kharga Oasis, Egypt),” July
2015.
76) Referee for article “Dakhleh Oasis Project, Petroglyph Unit: Seasons 2012 and 2013” for
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, in 2015.
77) Referee for article “A Stray Late Roman coin in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-
Bahari” for Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, in 2015.
78) Referee for article “Christian Settlement at Failaka – Qusur Site (Kuwait). Excavations
2011 and 2013” for Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean in 2015.
79) Referee for article “A huge conflagration? Traces of burning on the walls of monastic
buildings at Nekloni (Naqlun)” for Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, in 2015.
80) Referee for article by Yanne Broux, “Trade Networks among the Army Camps of the
Eastern Desert of Roman Egypt,” in Eivind H. Seland and Håkon Teigen, eds., Sinews of
Empire: Networks in the Roman Near East and Beyond (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017) in
December 2015.
81) Referee for article “Indian steel — a forgotten commodity of the great trade routes” for
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean in 2016.
82) Referee for article “Monetization of Roman Egypt during the Flavian Dynasty (69-96 AD):
The case of Alexandria and Berenike” for Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean in
2016.
83) Reviewer for textbook by David Potter, Ancient Rome: A New History, 2nd edition (Thames
& Hudson) in February 2016.
84) Referee for article “Marea. Excavations in House H1. Season 2014” for Polish
Archaeology in the Mediterranean in 2016.
85) Evaluator of published material for promotion/tenure of Prof. H. Barnard to associate
professor with a joint appointment at Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and in the
Department Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA, April-May 2016.
86) Referee for article “Plant remains from Jiyeh (Porphyreon) (Lebanon) (seasons 2009-
2014): preliminary results of archaeobotanical analysis and implications for future
research” for Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean in 2016.
87) Co-organizer, co-funder, co-chair of conference in Paris, France “Le Désert Oriental
d’Égypte durant la période gréco-romaine: bilans archéologiques/The Current State of
Archaeological Research on the Eastern Desert of Egypt during Antiquity.” Co-hosted by
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The Collège of France, the Mission archéologique du Désert Oriental, the centre Hisoma
(CNRS, UMR 5189, Lyon) and the University of Delaware. March 30-31, 2016. Streamed
at http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/jean-pierre-brun/symposium-2016-03-31-14h30.htm
88) Panelist for the 31 applications to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
(2018) Stipends Program, October-November 2017.
89) Referee for article “Survival or Revival? Urban and Architectural Change in Post-Classical
Alexandria” for Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean in 2018.
90) Chaired session “Roman Egypt” at XXIV Roman Frontier Studies Conference,
Viminacium, Serbia, September 2018. Abstract published in Limes XXIIII 24th
International Limes Congress Serbia, September 2018 Book of Abstracts (Belgrade:
Institute of Archaeology, 2018): 152-154.
91) Read paper for Julien Cooper, “Trade routes, raiding, and mining: thoughts on the
Blemmyean desert state in Late Antiquity” for XXIV Roman Frontier Studies Conference,
Viminacium, Serbia, September 2018. Abstract published in Limes XXIIII 24th
International Limes Congress Serbia, September 2018 Book of Abstracts (Belgrade:
Institute of Archaeology, 2018): 154.
92) Referee for the Honor Frost Foundation for proposal by Tomasz Derda and Mariusz
Gwiazda for proposal “Landscape history and chronology of a Roman and Byzantine port
infrastructure of Marea in the Region of Mareotis (West of Alexandria),” April 2019.
Membership in Professional Organizations
1) Research Group for the British Association of South Asian Studies.
Service to the History Department, College, University
1) Member Undergraduate Studies Committee, History Department, University of Delaware,
1982-1985.
2) Member Committee on Lectureships, History Department, University of Delaware, 1983-
1984.
3) Chairman of Special Academic Programs Committee, College of Arts and Science,
University of Delaware, 1984-1986.
4) Member of Steering Committee, College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware,
1982-1984.
5) Member Media Center Committee of History Department, University of Delaware, 1984-
1986.
6) Chairman of Committee on Adjunct Academic Affairs of the University, University of
Delaware, 1984-1986.
7) Ex Officio member of Coordinating Committee on Education of the University, University
of Delaware, 1984-1985.
8) Senator-at-Large College of Arts and Science Faculty Senate, University of Delaware,
1984.
9) Member Executive Committee of History Department, University of Delaware, 1986-1987.
10) Chairman Media Center Committee of History Department, University of Delaware, 1986-
1989.
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11) Member of Committee to Evaluate the University of Delaware Center for Archaeological
Research for the College of Arts & Science, University of Delaware, 1986.
12) Member of Eve Clift Memorial Fund Committee of History Department, University of
Delaware, 1987-1988.
13) Member Advisory Committee on Global History of History Department, University of
Delaware, 1988 to date.
14) Display on Archaeological Excavations at 'Abu Sha'ar, Egypt for Coast Day, Lewes
Delaware, October 1988.
15) Member Peer-Review Committee of History Department, University of Delaware, spring
1989.
16) Display on Archaeological Excavations at 'Abu Sha'ar, Egypt for Donor Recognition Day,
University of Delaware, October 1990.
17) Acting member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee of the History Department,
University of Delaware, September-December 1991.
18) Secretary for monthly History Department meetings, University of Delaware, academic
year 1991-1992.
19) Member Search Committee for faculty line in Global History in History Department,
University of Delaware, spring 1992.
20) Chairman Undergraduate Studies Committee, History Department, University of Delaware,
1992-1994.
21) Member Search Committee for faculty line in Middle Eastern History in History
Department, University of Delaware, academic year 1992-1993.
22) Display of Archaeological Work at 'Abu Sha'ar, Egypt, 1987-1993 for Art History
Department, University of Delaware, spring 1994.
23) Evaluator for Delaware Humanities Forum lecture at Wesley College, Dover, DE, March
1994.
24) Administered Italian language exam twice to graduate student A. Long in History
Department, fall 1996.
25) Member History Honors Committee, History Department, University of Delaware, 1996-
1997.
26) Chair, peer review committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for Prof. R.
Matthee, spring 1997.
27) Member, peer review committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for Prof.
L. Duggan, spring 1997.
28) Chair, peer review committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for Prof. W.
Maloba, fall 1997.
29) Member, promotion and tenure sub-committee, Department of History, University of
Delaware for Prof. R. Matthee, fall 1997.
30) Department recorder, Department of History, University of Delaware, academic year 1998-
1999.
31) Member, peer review committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for Prof.
D. Callahan, spring 2001.
32) Member, promotion sub-committee, Department of History, University of Delaware, for
Prof. S.A. Alchon, spring-fall 2001.
33) Chair, History Department Media Center Committee fall 2001-spring 2002 & spring 2004-
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spring 2006.
34) Editor of the History Department Newsletter, fall 2003 on.
35) Member History Department Library Committee fall 2003 on.
36) Administered Italian language exam twice to graduate student L. Santoro in History
Department, spring 2004.
37) Member, peer review committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for Prof.
R. Wolters, spring 2005.
38) Member, promotion sub-committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for
Prof. W. Maloba, spring-fall 2005.
39) Member, peer review committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for. Prof.
M.W. McLeod, fall 2005.
40) Member of the Executive committee, Department of History, University of Delaware from
winter/spring 2007 – fall 2007.
41) Member of Committee for Preservation Studies Doctoral Program (Winterthur Museum)
winter 2008.
42) Member History Department History Media Center Committee, fall 2008-spring 2009.
43) Member of Peer Review Committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for
Prof. D. Pong, fall 2008.
44) Member of Peer Review Committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for
Prof. J. Bernstein, spring 2009.
45) Member of Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History, University of
Delaware, fall 2009-spring 2010.
46) Member of Search Committee for faculty line in South Asian History in History
Department, University of Delaware, academic year 2009-2010.
47) Chair of History Department Media Center Committee, fall 2009-spring 2011.
48) Member of Provost Tom Apple’s ad hoc committee investigating grade inflation/student
evaluations of faculty, fall 2010-spring 2011.
49) Chair of Peer Review Committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for Prof.
D. Callahan, spring 2012.
50) Member of Peer Review Committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for
Prof. L. Duggan, fall 2012.
51) Member of Promotion and Tenure sub-committee, Department of History, University of
Delaware for Prof. A. Rome, spring/fall 2013.
52) Chair of Peer Review Committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for Prof.
R. Matthee, fall 2014.
53) Created select bibliography on the pre-history/history of Anatolia/Asia Minor from
Paleolithic times to the early Byzantine period for Vahap Demir, a graduate student
working for MA in Social Studies in World History program, History Department,
University of Delaware, fall 2015.
54) Chair of Peer Review Committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for Prof.
M. McLeod, spring 2016
55) Member of Peer Review Committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for
Prof. J. Bernstein, spring 2016.
56) Member of Promotion and Tenure Sub-committee, Department of History, University of
Delaware for Prof. B. Joyce, spring-fall 2016.
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57) Chair of History Department Media Center Committee, fall 2016-present.
58) Facilitated Supplementary Agreement #2 to the General Agreement between the University
of Delaware and the University of Warsaw, Poland regarding cooperation in the field of
archaeological research (on July 1, 2011).
59) Facilitated a Memorandum of Understanding between department and the college with the
British Museum (on Oct. 30/Nov. 3, 2015).
60) Faculty advisor to Undergraduate History Club, History Department, University of
Delaware academic year 2016-2017.
61) Chair of History Media Center, History Department, University of Delaware, starting fall
2017.
62) Proxy/alternate senator from the History Department to the College of Arts and Science
Faculty Senate, University of Delaware, fall 2017.
63) Member of Peer Review Committee, Department of History, University of Delaware for
Prof. J. Cruz, spring 2018.
Public Lectures
At University of Delaware, in Delaware and close by
1) February 1982, How Did the Romans Deal with Economic Crisis? Evidence from Coinage
for HOT (History of Technology) Lunch Series, Department of History, University of
Delaware, Newark, DE.
2) March 1982, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Delaware Classical Association, Newark,
DE.
3) September 1982, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
4) October 1982, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel for Schuylkill Valley
Archaeological Chapter, Pottstown, PA (at request of Prof. J. Custer, Anthropology
Department, University of Delaware).
5) December 1982, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel for the Ancient and Medieval
Society, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
6) February 1983, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel for Dean Crawford and others in
the Humanities, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
7) February 1983, Roman Israel and Her Neighbors: Caesarea Maritima for Continuing
Education, University of Delaware, Wilcastle Center, Wilmington, DE.
8) March 1983, Archaeological Excavations in North Africa: Carthage and Quseir-al-Qadim
for Continuing Education, University of Delaware, Wilcastle Center, Wilmington, DE.
9) April 1983, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel for Latin Students at Concord High
School, Wilmington, DE.
10) September 1983, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
11) December 1983, Underwater Archaeological Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel for
COLD Lunch Series (Graduate Student sponsored), Department of History, University of
Delaware, Newark, DE.
12) January 1984, Greek Architecture and Sculpture as a Reflection of Greek Philosophy for
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Professor L.R. Palmer's Philosophy 301 (Ancient Philosophy), University of Delaware,
Newark, DE.
13) January 1984, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Hanby Jr. High School, Wilmington, DE.
14) February 1984, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel 1982-1983 for DUPESSDA
Scuba Club, Wilmington, DE.
15) May 1984, Ancient Sports and Athletics for the Delaware Junior Classical League,
Newark, DE.
16) May 1984, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel for Department of History Honors
Dinner, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
17) September 1984, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
18) October 1984, Excavations at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt for Interlocutors Club, Philadelphia,
PA.
19) October 1984, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel for Beth El Synagogue, Newark,
DE.
20) April 1985, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel for Delaware Junior Classical
Association banquet, University of Delaware.
21) September 1985, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
22) September 1985, Ancient Trade in the Red Sea-Indian Ocean Region for Newark Rotary
Club.
23) October 1985, Achievement of Rome for the Honors House, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE.
24) October 1985, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1982-1984 for the Anthropology
Club, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
25) October 1985, Ancient Trade in the Red Sea-Indian Ocean Region for the Geography
Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
26) March 1986, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1982-1984 for the Scientific
Research Society DuPont Chapter, Wilmington, DE.
27) May 1986, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1982-1984 for the Calvary Baptist
Church, Newark, DE.
28) September 1986, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
29) November 1986, Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1982-1984 for the Phi Alpha
Theta Society, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
30) September 1987, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
31) September 1988, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
32) September 1988, Excavating an Ancient Roman Harbor for Cultural Lecture Series '88-'89,
Delaware Technical and Community College, Georgetown, DE.
33) September 1988, Herod's Lost Underwater City for Arts and Humanities Lecture Series,
University of Delaware, Goodstay Center, Wilmington, DE.
34) February 1989, Herod's Lost Underwater City for Cokesbury Village Retirement
Community, Hockessin, DE.
35) February 1989, Ancient Roman Trade with Arabia, India and Sub-Saharan Africa: The
Egyptian Connection for the "Open House" West Chester University, West Chester, PA.
36) April 1989, An Archaeological Journey Across the Egyptian Desert for the Mortar Board
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Society, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
37) September 1989, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
38) October 1989, Ancient Sports and Athletics for University of Cincinnati, Ohio
(Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
39) October 1989, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
(Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
40) October 1989, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Springfield,
Ohio chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
41) March 1990, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Cokesbury
Village Retirement Community, Hockessin, DE.
42) March 1990, Roman Trade with the East for Prof. Tai Liu AS605 China and the West,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
43) September 1990, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
44) November 1990, Roman Forts in the Egyptian Desert for Phi Alpha Theta and Freshman
History Majors, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
45) April 1991, Roman Forts in the Egyptian Desert for Chem Vets, Wilmington, DE.
46) September 1991, The Achievement of Rome for Making of the Modern Mind Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
47) April 1993, An Archaeological Journey Across the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Survey of the
Berenice-Coptos Road for Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society), University of
Delaware, Newark, DE.
48) December 1993, 'Abu Sha'ar: Excavations at a Late Roman Fort on the Red Sea Coast of
Egypt: 1987-1993 for Department of History Colloquium, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE.
49) April 1997, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Philadelphia,
PA chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
50) October 1997, Ancient Greek Theater for 30th Anniversary of Del Tech/University of
Delaware Parallel Program, Georgetown, DE.
51) November 1997, Berenike: Roman Egypt's Gateway to Arabia and India, Seminar in Late
Antiquity, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
52) March 1999, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Athens, GA
chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
53) March 1999, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Mississippi/Memphis chapter (Oxford, MI)
(Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
54) March 1999, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for North
Carolina chapter (Chapel Hill) (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
55) April 1999, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for South Florida
chapter (Miami) (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
56) April 1999, Archaeological Excavations at Berenike, Egypt: An Ancient Roman Spice Port
between the Desert and the Sea, for Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society), University
of Delaware, Newark, DE.
57) October 2007, Behind the Scenes Look at an Archaeological Dig, William Penn High
School, Newcastle, DE.
58) February 2008, with J.J. Hurt, Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard Mason,
for History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture, Department of History,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
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59) April 2008, with J.J. Hurt, Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard Mason, for
History 367 (World War II in Europe), Department of History, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE.
60) March 2009, The Archaeological Investigations of Berenike and the Global Economy of
the Ancient World, Department of Geography Seminar Series, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE.
61) November 2009, Berenike: University of Delaware's Archaeological Excavations 1994-
2001 & 2009 at a Red Sea Port on the Ancient Maritime Spice Route, for University of
Delaware Library Assembly of Professional Staff (UDLAPS), Newark, DE.
62) April 2010, The Global Economy: An Ancient Perspective from Archaeological
Excavations at Berenike, Egypt, for History Honors Dinner, History Department,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
63) September 2011, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Journey in the Roman Era, for
History Work Shop, History Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
64) June 2012, From India to Alexandria in Egypt: An Ancient Merchant’s Journey in Roman
Times, for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Wilmington, DE.
65) May 2015, with J.J. Hurt, Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M.
Mason, for University of Delaware Library Associates, Newark, DE.
66) November 2015, with J.J. Hurt, Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M.
Mason, for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE.
67) March 2016, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Journey in Roman Times, for Beth
El Temple, Newark, DE.
68) November 2016, Odyssey of a Bombardier. The POW Log of Richard M. Mason, for
Radley Run Country Club Fall Seminar, West Chester, PA.
69) April 2017, Travelling the High Seas and Bleak Deserts in Antiquity: A Journey from India
to Egypt in Roman Times for Institute for Global Studies, University of Delaware, Newark,
DE.
70) May 2017, On the Front Lines: Capturing Memories of World War II Veterans, History
Department Honors Banquet, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
Lectures delivered elsewhere in the US (museums, universities other institutions)
71) October 1987, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
72) October 1987, Rome's Spice Trade with the East for the Northern New Jersey Society of
the Archaeological Institute of America, Drew University, Madison, NJ (Archaeological
Institute of America guest lecture).
73) October 1987, Rome's Spice Trade with the East for Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
(Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
74) October 1987, Rome's Spice Trade with the East for the Narragansett Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America, Brown University, Providence, RI (Archaeological
Institute of America guest lecture).
75) October 1988, Ports of the Red Sea for Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI.
76) November 1988, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
(Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
77) November 1988, Ancient Sports and Athletics for University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
(Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
78) November 1988, Ancient Sports and Athletics for University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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(Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
79) December 1990, Roman Forts in the Egyptian Desert for Kresge Art Museum, Michigan
State University, East Lansing, MI.
80) April 1991, Ancient Sports and Athletics for New Orleans, LA chapter (Archaeological
Institute of America guest lecture).
81) April 1991, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Houston, TX
chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
82) April 1991, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Dallas, TX chapter (Archaeological Institute
of America guest lecture).
83) April 1991, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Classics Club,
University of Texas at Arlington.
84) April 1991, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Lubbock, TX chapter (Archaeological
Institute of America guest lecture).
85) October 1991, Sports in the Ancient World for Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,
VA.
86) November 1991, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Albany,
NY chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
87) November 1991, Ancient Sports and Athletics for New Haven, CT chapter (Archaeological
Institute of America guest lecture).
88) April 1992, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for New York
City chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
89) March 1993, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Rockford, IL
chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
90) April 1993, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Madison, WI
chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
91) April 1993, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Appleton, WI
chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
92) May 1995, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Seattle, WA
chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
93) May 1995, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Phi Alpha Theta at Eastern Washington
University, Spokane, WA.
94) May 1995, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Spokane, WA
chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
95) May 1995, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Walla Walla, WA chapter (Archaeological
Institute of America guest lecture).
96) June 1995, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Sea Resources,
Inc., Annapolis, MD.
97) November 1996, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for
Archaeological Society of Delaware, Newark, DE.
98) April 1997, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Kent/Akron,
Ohio chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
99) April 1997, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Cleveland,
Ohio chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
100) April 1997, A Behind the Scenes Look at Archaeology in Action: Fieldwork in the Eastern
Desert of Egypt for Prof. D. Lateiner's Introductory Archaeology Class at Ohio Wesleyan
University, Delaware, OH.
101) April 1997, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Columbus,
Ohio chapter (delivered in Delaware, OH) (Archaeological Institute of America guest
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lecture).
102) April 1997, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Economics
Department, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
103) April 1997, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Toledo, Ohio chapter (Archaeological
Institute of America guest lecture).
104) November 1999, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for
Southwest Texas chapter (San Antonio) (Archaeological Institute of America guest
lecture).
105) November 1999, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Central
Arizona chapter (Phoenix) (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
106) November 1999, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Orange County California chapter
(Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
107) November 1999, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for rump
session of Orange County Chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
108) November 1999, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Santa Fe chapter (Archaeological
Institute of America guest lecture).
109) November 2000, Berenike: Roman Egypt's Red Sea Gateway to Africa, Arabia and India
for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
110) May 2001, Excavations at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt: A Greco-Roman Emporium
on the Ancient Maritime Silk Road, for the Philadelphia Chapter of The Explorers Club,
Camden, NJ.
111) April 2002, Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt: Excavations at an Emporium on the Ancient
Maritime Silk Road, for University of Kansas, Lawrence (Archaeological Institute of
America guest lecture).
112) April 2002, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Dept. of Classics, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS.
113) April 2002, Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt: Excavations at an Emporium on the Ancient
Maritime Silk Road, for University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana (Archaeological Institute
of America guest lecture).
114) April 2002, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Nashville, for Tennessee chapter of the
Archaeological Institute of America, Nashville, TN.
115) April 2003, The Ethnicity and Status of the Ancient Inhabitants of Berenike: A Ptolemaic-
Roman Port on the Ancient Maritime Silk Route, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
116) September 2003, Ancient Peoples on the Ancient Trade Routes: A Case Study of Berenike:
Egypt, for Classical Humanities Society of South Jersey Lecture Series, Richard Stockton
College, Pomona, NJ.
117) November 2003, Reflections of Ethnicity in the Red Sea Commerce in Antiquity: Evidence
of Trade Goods, Languages and Religions from the Excavations at Berenike (Red Sea
Coast), Egypt, for the Art History-History-Classics-Classical Art and Archaeology
Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
118) March 2004, Julius Caesar: Military Genius or Lucky Commander for the Ides of March: A
Roman Holiday, at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio.
119) May 2004, Ancient Peoples on the Ancient Trade Routes of the Red Sea: A Case Study of
Berenike, Egypt, for Dr. Lionel Casson, Professor Emeritus New York University, Classics
Dept., New York University, New York, New York.
120) March 2006, “Berenike” for National Geographic television executives, Washington, D.C.
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121) April 2007, The Real Ancient Mariners: Egyptian Ports and Indian Spice in Antiquity
(Boshell Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology), Walters Art Museum,
Baltimore, MD.
122) May, 2007, Uncovering Berenike: A Port Along the Ancient Maritime Trade Route
(Boshell Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology), Art Institute of
Chicago, IL.
122) September 2007, Elephants, Pepper and Pearls: The Ancient Port of Berenike on Egypt’s
Red Sea Coast (Boshell Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology), Dallas
Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.
123) February 2008, Archaeology of the Ancient Maritime Spice Routes 1980-2008, for Mr.
Walter T. Douglas, Director of Press and Public Diplomacy/Bureau of Near Eastern
Affairs, US State Department and guests, Bethesda, MD.
124) November 2010, Red Sea-Indian Ocean Commercial-Cultural Contacts in Roman Times,
for undergraduate/graduate seminar: CC383 Hellenistic and Roman Egypt offered by the
Department of Classics and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin.
125) November 2010, Soldiers, Sailors, Merchants & Crooks: Life in Ptolemaic and Roman
Times at Berenike on the Red Sea for Department of Classics, University of Texas, Austin.
126) September 2011, The Site of Berenike in Roman Egypt and its Maritime Trade
Connections with the East University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA.
127) October 2011, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Journey in Roman Times for Dept.
of Classics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
128) October 2011, From India to Egypt: A Merchant’s Journey in the Roman Era, for Religious
Studies Brain Bag Lunch Colloquium Series, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
129) April 2014, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Journey in Roman Times, for
Distinguished Annual Lecture on New Archaeologies of Africa and Asia, Cornell Fine Arts
Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.
130) April 2014, Forts, Ports, Mines and Roads in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence from
Ptolemaic and Roman Times, for ARH234 - Art and Archaeology of the Roman Empire
class, Rollins College, Winter Park FL.
131) April 2014, Behind the Scenes Look at an Archaeological Dig, for ANT228 - World
Archaeology class, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.
132) September 2014, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Journey in Roman Times,
Classics Colloquium, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.
133) May 2015, with J.J. Hurt, Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M.
Mason, for University of Delaware Library Associates, Newark, DE.
134) November 2015, with J.J. Hurt, Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M.
Mason, for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE.
135) March 2019, Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route: Brief Overview of
Excavations 1994-2019, for Stanford Archaeology Forum, Stanford University, Palo Alto,
CA.
136) March 2019, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Odyssey in Roman Times, for
Toledo, OH chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, Toledo, OH.
137) May 2019, Voices from the Front: Memories of Combat from the Europe and the Pacific,
for Central Pennsylvania Roundtable, Hummelstown, PA.
Lectures delivered overseas (at museums, universities, other institutions)
138) June 1987, Ports of the Red Sea and the India-Arabia Trade for the Archaeology Club,
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Cairo, Egypt.
139) June 1989, The Romans and the Red Sea for the American Research Center in Egypt
(Special Seminar), Cairo, Egypt.
140) February 1990, The Romans, The Red Sea and the India Trade for History Department,
Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India.
141) February 1990, The Red Sea Trade with India and Rome for Department of Ancient
History and Archaeology, Madras University, Madras, India.
142) February 1990, Roman Ports of the Red Sea Coast of Egypt for Archaeological Survey of
India, New Delhi, India.
143) November 1991, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Niagara
Peninsula, Ontario, Canada chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
144) March 1994, Ancient Sports and Athletics for Classics Dept., McGill University, Montreal,
Canada.
145) March 1994, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Montreal,
Canada chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
146) March 1994, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Ottawa-Hull,
Canada chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
147) March 1994, Rome's Spice Trade with the East: The Egyptian Connection for Toronto,
Canada chapter (Archaeological Institute of America guest lecture).
148) March 2006, The Corinth Canal, guest lecture on board the M/S Clipper Adventurer on a
Mediterranean cruise (“Exploring the Seas of Ulysses March 21-April 1, 2006”) between
Italy and Greece.
149) March 2006, The Acropolis at Athens, guest lecture on board the M/S Clipper Adventurer
on a Mediterranean cruise (“Exploring the Seas of Ulysses March 21-April 1, 2006”)
between Italy and Greece.
150) December 2006, Berenike, Ptolemaic-Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt: Melting
Pot of Ancient Peoples, for the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, Australia.
151) June 2007, Ancient Greek Colonization of the Black Sea, guest lecture on board M/S
Clipper Adventurer in the Black Sea.
152) June 2007, A Brief History of the Crimea, guest lecture on board M/S Clipper Adventurer
in the Black Sea.
153) June 2007, Troy, on board M/S Clipper Adventurer in the Aegean/Eastern/Central
Mediterranean.
154) June 2007, Ephesus, on board M/S Clipper Adventurer in the Aegean/Eastern/Central
Mediterranean.
155) June 2007, The Acropolis at Athens, on board M/S Clipper Adventurer in the
Aegean/Eastern/Central Mediterranean.
156) June 2007, The Corinth Canal, on board M/S Clipper Adventurer in the
Aegean/Eastern/Central Mediterranean.
157) June 2007, Ancient Greek Colonization of Sicily and South Italy, on board M/S Clipper
Adventurer in the Aegean/Eastern/Central Mediterranean.
158) June 2007, Pompeii, on board M/S Clipper Adventurer in the Aegean/Eastern/Central
Mediterranean.
159) April 2008, Petra, Rose Red City Half as Old as Time, for Zegrahm & Eco Expeditions,
Dead Sea, Jordan.
160) April 2008, Ancient Alexandria, for Zegrahm & Eco Expeditions, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
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161) December 2010, Ports, Forts, Mines and Roads in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence
from Ptolemaic and Roman Times, for Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Bern,
Switzerland.
162) November 2011, Petra ‘Rose-Red City Half as Old as Time’ for Zegrahm Expedition Tour
of the Red Sea, Petra, Jordan.
163) November 2011, Mt. Sinai & St. Catherine's Monastery, Zegrahm Expedition Tour of the
Red Sea, Petra, Jordan.
164) November 2011, From India to Alexandria: An Ancient Merchant’s Journey in Roman
Times, Zegrahm Expedition Tour of the Red Sea, aboard ship in the Red Sea.
165) November 2011, Ports, Forts, Mines and Roads in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence
from Ptolemaic and Roman Times. Zegrahm Expedition Tour of the Red Sea, aboard ship
in the Red Sea.
166) February 2012, From India to Alexandria: An Ancient Merchant’s Journey in Roman
Times for Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Cairo, Egypt.
167) November 2012, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Journey in Roman Times, for
Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, School of Histories, Languages and Cultures,
University of Liverpool, UK.
168) December 2012, Forts, Ports, Mines and Roads in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence
from Ptolemaic and Roman Times, for Centres des Études Alexandrines and the
Archaeological Society of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.
169) December 2012, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Journey in Roman Times, for the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt.
170) June 2013, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Journey in Roman Times, for the Petra
Garden and Pool Complex excavation team, Umm Seyhoun, Jordan.
171) February 2015, From India to Alexandria: A Merchant’s Journey in Roman Times, École
normale supérieure, l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France.
172) November 2015, Behind the Scenes Look at Archaeological Surveys and Digs in Egypt,
for: Kerala Council for Historical Research Students, Cherai Beach Resort, Kerala, India.
173) May 2017, Travelling the High Seas and Bleak Deserts in Antiquity: A Journey from India
to Egypt in Roman Times, for Dipartimento: Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, Centro
Interdipartimentale di Servizi di Archeologia, Universitá degli studi Napoli “L’Orientale”
Naples, Italy.
+ Member of the Delaware Humanities Forum Speakers Bureau for 1984-1986 to lecture on the
Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1982-1985.
++ Member of the Archaeological Institute of America's 1987-1988, 1988-1989, 1989-1990,
1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1992-1993, 1993-1994, 1994-1995, 1996-1997, 1998-1999, 1999-
2000 and 2001-2002 Guest Lecture Tours.
+++ Lecturer for the Clipper Cruise Line March 2006, June 2007 (Aegean, Mediterranean, Black
Sea).
++++ Lecturer for Zegrahm & Eco Expeditions, April 2008 (Jordan-Egypt), November 2011
(Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Red Sea).
N.B.: Current to June 10, 2019