Timothy Power, The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate AD 500–1000 . Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, 2012, xiv + 363 pages

Interest in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade network crosses many disciplines and stretches from the earliest contacts between Egypt and Mesopotamia through the Suez Canal, to the present. Much of the previous study has focused on the Roman period, the Mamluk/Rasulid period and the impact of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean. Timothy Power has made a substantive contribution to the field with his survey of the archaeological evidence, much of it since the 1980s, for late antiquity and the ...