Papers originally presented at a conference held September, 2014, at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Living in the Oasis : humans and the environment. Water resources and irrigation in two oases of the Western Desert of Egypt, Kharga and Dakhla / Jean-Paul Bravard -- Trimithis : a case study of proto-Byzantine urbanism / Paola Davoli -- Managing the Oasis. The Great Oasis : an administrative entity from pharaonic times to Roman times / Roger S. Bagnall and Gaelle Tallet -- Trade and mobility in a connected environment. The North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Survey (NKODAAS) : Surveying the tracks between the two oases / Salima Ikram -- An Oasis Culture? Temple building on the Egyptian margins : the geopolitical issues behind Seti II and Ramesses IX's activity at Amheida / Olaf E. Kaper