Stories of Globalization - the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity ― Selected Papers of Red Sea Project VII

This edited volume presents the latest research conducted in the Red Sea area within the wider context of the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean connection, from the prehistory to the contemporary era.

Andrea Manzo is Professor of Archaeology of the Nile valley, Nubian and Ethiopian Archaeology at the University “L’Orientale”, Napels, and visiting Professor at Addis Ababa University. He has almost 30 years of fieldwork experience in Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The archaeology and history of the marginal areas, man-environment relations, long distance trade, the cross-acculturation and emergence of social hierarchy in North-east Africa and the Red Sea are his main research interests.

Chiara Zazzaro teaches Maritime Archaeology at the University “L’Orientale”, Napels. In 2006 she defended her PhD thesis about ancient maritime contacts along the African coast of the Red Sea. Since 2001 her research focuses on the study of ancient and traditional boatbuilding techniques, harbours and ports, navigation techniques and coastal environments, particularly in the Red Sea and Gulf area.

Diana Joyce de Falco is a PhD candidate in Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies at the University "L'Orientale", Naples. Her research focuses on Jewish cultural heritage in Italy. She has worked as an assistant curator on several exhibitions and as a cataloguer of Jewish cultural heritage in Southern Italy.