Trade Archive
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Glassware from Roman Egypt at Begram (Afghanistan) and the Red Sea trade
Posted on March 27, 2013 | No CommentsIn the period of the early Roman Empire, the Mediterranean basin and south Asia were connected by vast and complex networks of long-distance travel and commerce. The itineraries given in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (maritime) and Parthian stations (overland) are not necessarily routes to be followed by a single merchant with a single cargo from beginning to end -
The Silk Road in Late Antiquity: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact between Rome and China, 300-700 CE
Posted on March 14, 2013 | No CommentsThis is a study of the modes of political and cultural communication which led to a rare level of 'intervisibility' between the various societies and states along the Silk Road in the Late Antique period (roughly 300-700 CE). -
From Cornwall to Corinth: Was there a ‘tin road’ across Europe 2,500 years ago?
Posted on January 27, 2013 | No CommentsDuring the sixth century BC the Greeks used tin from Cornwall for making bronzes. This precious metal was transported by boat along the Atlantic coast, through the Straits of Gibraltar and across the Mediterranean to Greece. -
Building pharaoh
Posted on January 15, 2013 | No CommentsIn this paper, Egypt is considered in its role as a seafaring nation influencing and interacting with other groups through the perspective of the major tool required: the seagoing ship. -
From the Roman Red Sea to beyond the Empire: Egyptian ports and their trading partners
Posted on January 15, 2013 | No CommentsGiven that their sole purpose was as outlets for trade with the East, their harbour facilities are of particular interest in understanding the organisation of the trade. -
The Traders in Rome’s Eastern Commerce
Posted on January 14, 2013 | No CommentsDespite opposition by certain members of society, the Eastern trade seems to have continued to grow for at least the first two centuries of Roman rule. -
Reconstructing The Ancient Aegean/Egyptian Textile Trade
Posted on January 4, 2013 | No CommentsWe know from various sorts of archaeological and palaeobotanical evidence, for example, that flax had been in use for textiles throughout southeastern Europe since the 6th millennium BC, and that wool and woolly sheep had been introduced from the Near East shortly before 3000 BC (the end of the Neolithic) -
Vision, Folly and Balance: Imperial Approaches to Commerce and War in the Roman Near East, 27 BCE
Posted on January 1, 2013 | No CommentsWhen Emperor Marcus Aurelius died on the banks of the Danube in 180 CE at Vindobona, or Vienna, the Roman Empire he left behind was the largest transcontinental, transcultural, singular political entity in history before the rise of the European nation state some fifteen centuries later. -
Ancient Roman harbour discovered
Posted on December 13, 2012 | No CommentsArchaeologists have discovered one of the harbours which brought wheat and other important goods into the ancient city of Rome. -
Amber in the Ancient Near East
Posted on November 21, 2012 | No CommentsIn ancient India and Egypt, it was burned as incense, believed to purify temples and palaces. From antiquity, people have believed that amber has healing properties.
