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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220429T165844
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220301T181500
SUMMARY:Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route: Brief Overview of Ex
 cavations 1994-2022
DESCRIPTION:Excavations since 1994 at Berenike have documented a bustling P
 tolemaic-Roman (3rd c. BC-6th c. AD) emporium on the Red Sea coast of Egyp
 t\, that operated for about 800 years. Ptolemy II Philadelphus founded Ber
 enike as a way station for transporting primarily ivory and elephants capt
 ured farther south along the African coast of the Red Sea. The city transf
 ormed in the Roman era into a truly “international” entrepôt\, part o
 f an extensive network linking primarily the wider Mediterranean world wit
 h other areas of the Red Sea and northwestern Indian Ocean.\\r\\nAs a nexu
 s of a broad overland and maritime communication system\, peoples\, ideas 
 and items from Europe\, Africa and Asia either passed through Berenike or 
 made it home. Our excavations have shed some light on the cosmopolitan nat
 ure of Berenike through its residents’ religious practices\, the languag
 es they spoke\, the food they ate\, the household pets they owned and\, in
  general\, the lifestyles they led at this forlorn port wedged between a h
 yper-arid desert and the sea.\\r\\nThis lecture will briefly highlight man
 y aspects of life at Berenike over its long history and discuss how the ci
 ty and its population changed until its eventual abandonment sometime befo
 re about 550 AD.\\r\\nVeranstaltung findet via Zoom statt: https://unibas.
 zoom.us/j/64439298445 [https://unibas.zoom.us/j/64439298445]
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Excavations since 1994 at Berenike have documented a bustling
  Ptolemaic-Roman (3<sup>rd</sup> c. BC-6<sup>th</sup> c. AD) emporium on t
 he Red Sea coast of Egypt\, that operated for about 800 years. Ptolemy II 
 Philadelphus founded Berenike as a way station for transporting primarily 
 ivory and elephants captured farther south along the African coast of the 
 Red Sea. The city transformed in the Roman era into a truly “internation
 al” entrepôt\, part of an extensive network linking primarily the wider
  Mediterranean world with other areas of the Red Sea and northwestern Indi
 an Ocean.</p>\n<p>As a nexus of a broad overland and maritime communicatio
 n system\, peoples\, ideas and items from Europe\, Africa and Asia either 
 passed through Berenike or made it home. Our excavations have shed some li
 ght on the cosmopolitan nature of Berenike through its residents’ religi
 ous practices\, the languages they spoke\, the food they ate\, the househo
 ld pets they owned and\, in general\, the lifestyles they led at this forl
 orn port wedged between a hyper-arid desert and the sea.</p>\n<p>This lect
 ure will briefly highlight many aspects of life at Berenike over its long 
 history and discuss how the city and its population changed until its even
 tual abandonment sometime before about 550 AD.</p>\n<p>Veranstaltung finde
 t via Zoom statt:<br /> <a href="https://unibas.zoom.us/j/64439298445">htt
 ps://unibas.zoom.us/j/64439298445</a></p>
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