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<< Our Photo Pages >> Wadi Gawasis Port and Caves - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Egypt in Lower Egypt (North)

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Multi-periodSite Name: Wadi Gawasis Port and Caves Alternative Name: Mersa Gawasis Port
Country: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 173.478 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Hurghada  Nearest Village: Makadi
Latitude: 26.964421N  Longitude: 33.920667E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Wadi Gawasis Port and Caves
Wadi Gawasis Port and Caves submitted by KathrynBard : Site in at Mersa, Upper Egypt. Caves at Wadi Gawasis, Egypt where we have been excavating the remains of ancient ships. Photo Courtesy of Kathryn Bard, Head of Boston University Archeology Department. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Lower Egypt (North)

Over the past 4 years a team consisting of Dr. Rodolfo Fattovich - Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples (Italy) - and Dr. Kathryn A. Bard - Boston University, Boston (USA)have investigated an unusual site at Wadi Gawasis on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt.

The site consists of at least 2 caves which essentially served as dry dock and warehouse for Middle Kingdom Egyptian ships trading on the Red Sea. The caves held well preserved supplies like ropes and boxes as well as the usual ceramics.

One of the boxes had a cartouche of Pharaoh Amenhemhat III who reigned in the 18th Century BCE and the Hyrogliphic inventory list described "Wonderful things of Punt".

So far, Egyptian trade with Punt, perhaps modern day Ethiopia/Eritrea, was described on various ancient steles and temple walls (Hatshepsut), but there never had been conclusive prove of how exactly it was done in erms of logistics. The new find provide persusive evidence that the Egyptian travelled great distance by sea, perhaps as far as perhaps Yemen for Incense etc.
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