Contents
[The Foreword]
(G.M.Bauer, E.E.Kormysheva) ..............................................................
Parti
The Red Sea Region from the Prehistoric Period
to the 4th Millennium BC ............................................................................
13Chapter 1
The North-Eastern Red Sea Region from the Prehistoric Period
to the 4th Millennium BC ............................................................................ 15
On the Time of the Original Settlement of Man in Southern Arabia. Certain Aspects of the Historical and Cultural Development of Arabia during the Later Stages of the Stone Age
(KhA. Amirkhanov) .................................................................................. 30
Southern Palestine and Sinai from the 7th
to the 4th Millennium BC (J.Sh. Shifman) ............................................... 41
Chapter 2
North Eastern Africa in the Prehistoric Period.................................................. 46
The Historical Geography of North Eastern Africa................................. 46
The General Characteristics of the Archaeological Cultures in the Nile Valley and the adjacent regions
(E.E. Kormysheva)................................................................................................. 55
Part II
The Eastern and Northern Zones of the Red Sea Region
from the 3rd to 1st Millennium BC............................................................ 83
Chapter 1
The Emergence of Southern Arabian Civilizations (G.M.Bauer) .... 86
Chapter 2
Arabia in the 3rd and 2nd Millenniums BC..................................................... 95
Eastern and South Eastern Arabia............................................................. 95
South Western Arabia
(KhA. Amirkhanov) ......................................................................................
99The Persian Gulf - the Site of the First Contact of Cultures.................. 102
The Documents and Texts in the Southern Arabian
Writing System
(G.M. Bauer) ............................................................................................... 105
Chapter 3
Sinai and Southern Palestine
(I.Sh. Shifman)................................................................................................ Ill
Chapter 4
North Eastern Red Sea Region and Egypt in the 3rd - first half
of the 2nd Millennium BC. The North Eastern Estuary ..................... 119
Expeditions to Sinai.................................................................................... 123
The Canal Problem
(E.E. Kormysheva)...................................................................................... 128
Chapter 5
The Asiatic Peoples and Egypt during the 3rd and - first half
of the 2nd Millennium BC
(M.V. Gorelik) ............................................................................................. 131
The Asiatic Peoples in Egypt............................................................ 147
The Struggle with the Hyksos........................................................... 159
The Expelling of the Hyksos
(E.E. Kormysheva)...................................................................................... 164
Chapter 6
The Egyptians in the North Eastern Estuary and on the Sinai Peninsula in the 2nd and 1st Millenniums BC .
The Pelusian Arm of the Nile .................................................................
Expeditions to the Sinai
(E.E. Kornysheva).....................................................................................
PartHI Western Red Sea Region ...................................................................
Chapter 1
The Reclamation of the Eastern Desert in the 3rd
and first half of the 2nd Millennium BC......................................................
The Development of Wadi Hammamat Quarries......................................
The Breakthrough to the Shore of the Red Sea (EK. Kornysheva)..........
Chapter 2
Egypt in the Eastern Desert and on the Red Sea
from the second half of the 2nd to the beginning
of the 1st Millennium BC
(EK. Kornysheva)......................................................................................
Part IV
The South Western Red Sea Regions....................................................
Chapter 1
Nubia in the 4th to 2nd Millennium BC
(E.E. Kormysheva).....................................................................................
Chapter 2
Egypt in Nubia in the 3rd4o 1st Millenniums BC
(E.E. Kormysheva).....................................................................................
Chapter З
Nubians in Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd Millenniums BC
(T.N. Savelyeva) .......................................................................................... 309
Chapter 4
Punt
(E.E. Kormysheva)....................................................................................... 325
Part V
Some Problems of Cultures' Interaction................................................. 333
Chapter 1
The Wandering Gods (Egypt and Western Asia)
(O.V. Tomashevich) .................................................................................... 336
Chapter 2
The Expansion of the Egyptian Cultural Influence to the South
(E.E. Kormysheva)....................................................................................... 381
The Temple Culture of Kush
(E.M. Tsinoeva) ........................................................................................... 403
Epilogue .............................................................................................................. 421
Bibliography........................................................................................................ 424
Index
458