Asyut – centre of ancient trade
Ägyptologisches Seminar
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl, Dr. hab. Prof. IMOC PAN Teodozja Rzeuska (Warschau)
Asyut, situated c. 375 km to the south of Cairo, on midway between two ancient Egyptian capitals Memphis and Thebes, was a political and cultural centre of Middle Egypt since the First Intermediate Period (c. 2100 BCE) at the latest, and remained such to the decline of the Pharaonic epoch. The ...