Publications

1957

Meredith, D. Berenice Troglodytica, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 43, 1957, 56–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/030751335704300110

1995

Sidebotham, S.E., Wendrich, W. Berenike 1994. Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert. Leiden 1995.

1996

Sidebotham, S.E, Wendrich, W. Berenike 1995: Preliminary Report of the 1995 Excavtions at Berenike (Egypt Red Sea Coast) and the Survey of the Eastern Desert (CNWS publications 1). Leiden 1996.

Sidebotham, S.E, Wendrich, W. Berenike. Roman Egypt’s Maritime Gateway to Arabia and India. Egyptian Archaeology 8, 1996, 15–18.

1997

Sidebotham, S.E. Caravans across the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Recent Discoveries on the Berenike – Apollinopolis Magna – Coptos Roads. In A. Avanzini, Profumi d’Arabia: atti del Convegno, Pisa 1995 (Saggi di storia antica 11). Roma 1997, 385–393.

Sidebotham, S.E, Wendrich, W. Fieldwork in Southeastern Egypt. Excavations at Berenike and Survey of the Eastern Desert 1994–1996. Archaeological News 21, 1996–1997, 34–40.

1998

Wendrich, W.Z. Fringes are Anchored in Warp and Weft. The Relations between Berenike, Shenshef and the Nile Valley. In O.E. Kaper, Life on the Fringe: Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts during the Roman and Early Byzantine Period. Proceedings of a Colloquium Held on the Occasion of the 25th Aniversary of the Nederlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo 1996 (CNWS publications 71). Leiden 1998, 243–251.

Sidebotham, S.E., Wendrich, Berenike 1996: Report of the 1996 Excavations at Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast) ad the Survey of the Eastern Desert (CNWS publications 3). Leiden 1998.

1999

Sidebotham, S.E., Wendrich, W. Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations at Shenshef (CNWS publications 4). Leiden 1999.

Sidebotham, S.E. Berenike, Trade and the Military: Investigations at a Red Sea port in Egypt. Roman Frontier Studies 1997, 251–257.

2000

Bagnal, R.S. Documents from Berenike 1. Greek Ostraca from the 1996–1998 Seasons (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 31). Bruxelles 2000.

Sidebotham, S.E., Wendrich, W. Berenike 1998. Report of the 1998 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat (CNWS 4). Leiden 2000.

2001

Sidebotham, S.E, Wendrich, W. Berenike. Roms Tor am Roten Meer nach Arabien und Indien. Antike Welt 32, 2001, 251–263.

Wild, F.C., Wild, J.P. Sails from the Roman Port at Berenike, Egypt. The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 30, 2001, 211–220.

2002

Sidebotham, S.E. Late Roman Berenike. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39, 2002, 217–240.

Sidebotham, S.E. From Berenike to Koptos: Recent Results of the Desert Route Survey. Topoi 3, 2002, 415–438.

Sidebotham, S.E. The Roman Empire’s Southeastern-most frontier. Recent Discoveries at Berenike and Environs (Eastern Desert of Egypt), 1998–2000. In Ph. Freeman, Limes 18: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, held in Amman, Jordan (Septemebr 2000)(BAR Internationa Series 1084). Oxford 2002.

2003

Nicholson, P.T., Price, J. Glass from the Port of Berenike, Red Sea Coast, Egypt. In Échanges et commerce du verre dans le monde antique, Montagnac 2003, 389–394.

2004

Sidebotham, S.E. Reflections of Ethnicity in the Red Sea Commerce in Antiquity: Evidence of Trade Goods, Langueages and Religions from the Excavations at Berenike. P. Lunde, A. Porter, , Trade and Travel in the Red Sea Region: Proceedings of Red Sea Project 1, Held in the British Museum, Oxtober 2002 (BAR Internationa Series 1269). Oxford 2004, 105–115.

2005

Bagnal, R.S. Documents from Berenike 2. Texts from the 1999-2001 (Papyrlogica Bruxellensia 36). Bruxelles 2005.

2006

Cappers, R.T.J. Roman Foodprint at Berenike: Archaeobotanical Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA 55). Los Angeles 2006.

2007

Sidebotham, S.E., Wendrich, W. Berenike 1999/2000: Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaraguds Region (Cotsen Instiute of Archaeology at UCLA 56). Los Angeles 2007.

2008

Sidebotham, S.E. Archaeological Evidence for Ships and Harbor Facilities at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt. R.L. Hohlfelder, ed., The Maritime World of Ancient Rome: Proceedings of “The Maritime World of Ancient Rome”: Conference Held at the American Academu in Rome, 27–29 March 2003 (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 6). Ann Arbor 2008, 305–324.

2009

Peppard, M.A. A Letter Concerning Boats in Berenike and Trade on the Red Sea. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 171, 2009, 193–198.

2011

Lach, K. Roman Coins from Berenike (Seasons 1994–2000). Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization 15, 2011, 229–234.

Sidebotham, S.E. Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route (California World History Library 18). Berkley 2011.

Sidebotham, S.E., Zych, I. Berenike 2008-2009: Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including a Survey in the Eastern Desert (PCMA excavations series 1). Warsaw 2011.

Sidebotham, S.E., Zych, I. Berenike: Egypt’s Red Sea Gateway to the East. Egyptian Archaeology 2011, 18-20.

Woźniak, M. A., Rądkowska, J., K. Locating the Emporium, Port and Town of Berenike: Evidence of Geology, Geophysical Prospection and Satellite Mapping. (in): Berenike 2008/2009; Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including a Survey in the Eastern Desert, Warsaw 2011, 19-24.

Zych, I., Rądkowska, J.K., Liñeiro, I.C. The “Square Feature” in the Harbor: Excavations in Berenike 2010-2011. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 23.1, 2011, 245–263.

2012

Sidebotham, S.E., Zych, I. Results of Fieldwork at Berenike: on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt, 2008-2010. Topoi, Supplement 11, 2012, 133–157.

2014

Wild, J.P., Wild, F.C. Berenike and Textile Trade on the Indian Ocean. In Textile Trading and Distribution in Antiquity, Wiesbaden 2014, 91–109.

Woźniak, M. A., Rądkowska, J., K. In Search of Berenike of the Ptolemees. The Hellenistic fort of Berenike Trogodytika, Its Localization, Form, and Development (part one). Polish Archaeology in Mediterranean 23/1, (Research 2011), 2014, 505-526.

2015

Ast, R., Bagnall, R.S. The Receivers of Berenike. New Inscriptions from the 2015 Season. Chiron 45, 2015, 171–185. https://doi.org/10.34780/993k-l9r9

Sidebotham, S. E., Zych, I., Rądkowska, J. K., Woźniak, M. A. Berenike Project. Hellenistic fort, Roman Harbor, Late Roman Temple, and other Fieldwork: Archaeological Work in the 2012 and 2013 Seasons. Polish Archaeology in Mediterranean 24/1(Research), 2015, 297-324.

Zych, I., Herbich, T. Magetic Prospection in the Service of Uncovering the Hellenistic and Roman Port of Berenike on the Red Sea in Egypt. Archaeologia Polona 53, 2015, 95–118.

2016

Ast, R. Bagnall, R.S. Documents from Berenike 3. Greek and Latin Texts from the 2009–2013 Seasons (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 36). Bruxelles 2016.

Zych, I., Sidebotham, S. E., Hense, M., Rądkowska, J. K., Woźniak M. A. Archaeological Fieldwork in Berenike in 2014 and 2015: from Hellenistic Rock-cut Installations to Abandoned Temple Ruins". Polish Archaeology in Mediterranean 25, 2016, 315-348.

2017

Eguiluz Maestro, D. Conservation Interventions at the site of Berenike (Egypt): Challenges and Solutions in an Ancient City of the Eastern Desert, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 26/2, 2017, 211–223.

Hense, M. (2017). The Great Temple in Berenike: New findings of the Berenike Temple Project, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 26/2, 2017, 133–145.

Kotarba-Morley, A.M. Port Town and its Harbours: Sedimentary Proxies for Landscape and Seascape Reconstruction of the Greco-Roman Site of Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 26/2, 2017, 61–92.

Kucharczyk, R. Come and dine with me… Early Roman Luxury Glass Tableware from Berenike — New Evidence from the Harbor area and Trash Dumps. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 26/2, 2017, 147–166.

Sidebotham, S.E. Zwischen Wüste und Meer: der Hafen von Berenike in ptolemäisch-römischer Zeit. Antike Welt 48.2, 2017, 60–71.

Woźniak, M. A. Shaping a City and its Defenses: Fortifications of Hellenistic Berenike Trogodytika. Polish Archaeology in Mediterranean 26/2 Special Studies, Berenike and Aynuna: Polish Research on the Red Sea, 2017, 43-60.

Zych, I. The Harbor of Early Roman “Imperial” Berenike: Overview of Excavations from 2009–2015. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 26.2, 2017, 94–132.

2018

Then-Obłuska J. Beads and Pendants from the Hellenistic to Early Byzantine Red Sea Port of Berenike, Egypt. Season 2014 and 2015. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 27/1, 2018, 203–234.

Woźniak, M., Rądkowska, J. Berenike Trogodytika: a Hellenistic Fortress on the Red Sea coast, Egypt, Antiquity, 96.366, 2018, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.252

2019

Kotarba-Morley, A.M. Ancient Ports of Trade on the Red Sea Coasts—The ‘Parameters of Attractiveness’ of Site Locations and Human Adaptations to Fluctuating Land- and Sea-Scapes. Case Study Berenike Troglodytica, Southeastern Egypt. In N. Rasul and I. Stewart (eds), Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea. Cham: Springer 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99408-6_34

Osypińska, M., Woźniak, M. Livestock Economy at Berenike, a Hellenistic City on the Red Sea (Egypt). African Archaeological Review 36, 2019, 367–382. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.cdf.5245

Sidebotham, S.E., Gates-Foster, J. The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley: Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987-2015 (American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 26). Boston 2019.

Sidebotham, S.E., Zych, I., Hense, M., Ast, R., Kaper, O.E., Bergmann, M., Osypinska, M., Carannante, A. Results of the Winter 2018 Excavation Season at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt. The Belzoni Bicentennial Report. Thetis, 24, 2019, 7–19.

Woźniak, M. Berenike of the Ptolemies. A Hellenistic Desert City/Fortress. In M. Peterkova Hlouchova, D. Belohoubkova, J. Honzl, V. Novakova, Current Research in Egyptology 2018, Oxford, 2019, 239–252.

Zych, I., Rądkowska, J. Exotic Cults in Roman Berenike? An Investigation into Two Temples in the Harbour Temenos. In A. Manzo, C. Zazzaro and D. Joyce de Falco (eds), Stories of Globalisation: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity Selected Papers of Red Sea Project VII, Brill nv, Leiden 2019, 225–245. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004362321_012

Zych, I., Rądkowska, J. The “Lotus Temple” in Berenike on the Red Sea (Egypt) Two Phases of Cultic and Ritual Activities in the Late 4th and 5th Century AD. In Acts of the Conference held in Poitiers University in october 2014, De la Gaule à l’Orient méditerranéen. Fonctions et statuts des mobiliers archéologiques dans leur contexte, Presses Universitaires de Rennes et Institut françaisd’archéologie orientale 2019, 131–137.

Zych, I., Kucharczyk, R. Traps of Residuality: What is Early Roman Glass doing in a Late Roman Household Rubbish Dump? The Case of Trench BE10-59 from Berenike on the Red Sea (Egypt). In Acts of the Conference held in Poitiers University in october 2014, De la Gaule à l’Orient méditerranéen. Fonctions et statuts des mobiliers archéologiques dans leur contexte, Presses Universitaires de Rennes et Institut français d’archéologie orientale 2019, 91–96.

2020

Aerde, M. van, Zampierin, D. A Lot of Pepper and a Little Garum: an Archaeological Comparison of the Roman Presence at Berenike and Arikamedu. Ancient West & East 19, 2020, 145–166.

Ast, R. I.Pan 70, a Dedication from the Year 133 BC, Zeitschift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 213, 2020, 108–110.

Ast, R., Rądkowska, J. Dedication of the Blemmyan Interpreter Mochosak on Behalf of King Isemne, Zeitschift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 215, 2020, 147–158.

Sidebotham, S.E, Zych, I., Ast, R., Kaper, O.E., Hense, M., Bergmann, M., Osypińska, M., Carannante, A. Tomber, R., Newton, Cl. Berenike 2019: Report on the Excavations. Thetis 25, 2020, 11–22.

Zych, I. Empress and African: Two Female Images on Terracotta Oil Lamps from the Red Sea Port of Berenike. In K. Jakubiak, A. Łajtar (eds), Ex Oriente Lux. Studies in Honour of Jolanta Młynarczyk, Warsaw 2020, 97–104.

2021

Ast, R. Marcus Laelius Cosmus: Italian Merchants and Roman Trade at Berenike under the Julio-Claudian Emperors. L. Rahmstorf, G. Barjamovic, N. Ialongo, R. Ast, Merchants, Measures, and Money: Understanding Techonologies of Early Trade in a Comperative Perspective: Proceedings of Two Workshops Funded by European Research Council (ERC)(Weight & Value 2). Kiel 2021, 141–157.

Cobb, M.A. “Barbarians” and Blemmyes: Who Was in Control of the Red Sea Port of Berenike in the Late Antique Period? Journal of Late Antiquity 14, 2021, 267–293. https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2021.0029

Kaper, O.E. Berenike as a Harbour for Meroe; New Evidence for Meroitic Presence on the Red Sea Coast. Der Antike Sudan 32, 2021, 57–67.

Osypińska, M., Skibniewski, M., Osypiński, P. Ancient Pets. The Health, Diet and Diversity of Cats, Dogs and Monkeys from the Red Sea port of Berenice (Egypt) in the 1st–2nd Centuries AD, World Archaeology 52.4, 2021, 639–653. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2020.1870545

Popławski, Sz., Kraśniewska, U., Mi, F., Oleksiak, J. Trash from a Temple a Deposit Next to the Isis Temple at Berenike (Egypt). Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 30.2, 2021, 387–418.

Sidebotham, S.E., Zych, I., Ast, R., Kaper, O.E. Results of the Winter 2020 Excavation Season at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt. Thetis 26, 2021, 13–24.

Woźniak, M., & Harrell, J. When the well runs dry: Climatic instability and the abandonment of early Hellenistic Berenike. Antiquity 95/39-, 2021, 349-366. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.16

Woźniak, M., Sidebotham, S.E., Osypińska, M., Carannante, A., Rądkowska, J. Ptolemaic Berenike: Resources, Logistics, and Daily Life in a Hellenistic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt. American Journal of Archaeology 125, 2021, 247–281.

2022

Ast, R., Bagnall, R.S. O. Berenike 4. Ostraka from Port of Berenike. Pylon 1, 2022. https://doi.org/10.48631/pylon.2022.1.89358

Ast, R., Popławski, Sz., Rądkowska, J. A Building Inscription for the Blemmyan King Kabantia, Chiron 52, 2022, 201–216. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110796841-008

Carannante, A., Woźniak, M., Zych, I. More than just Food from the Sea: Exploitation of Marine Resources in Hellenistic Berenike on the Red Sea (Egypt). Journal of Archaeological Science, Reports 44, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103515

Oller Guzmán, J., Fernández Abella, D., Trevín Pita, V., Kaper, O.E., Ast, R., Osypińska, M., Sidebotham, S.E. A Falcon Shrine at the Port of Berenike (Red Sea Coast, Egypt), American Journal of Archaeology 126/4, 2022, 567-591. https://doi.org/10.1086/720806

Popławski, S., Kraśniewska, U., Mi, F. A Blocked-Out Capital from Berenike (Egyptian Red Sea Coast), Open Archaeology 8.1, 2022, 484-501. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0245

Woźniak, M. A. Berenice – Why There; Environmental, Economic and Logistic Conditions of the Hellenistic Port/Base Location. In Proceedings of the 9 Red Sea Conference; Networked spaces: the spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean Archéologie(s) 8, MOM Éditions, Lyon 2022, 73-95.

Zych, I, Woźniak, M. An early Roman burial ground in the port of Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 31, 2022, 245-284. https://doi.org/10.37343/uw.2083-537X.pam31.11

2023

Bajtler, M. Who in Antiquity sealed amphorae and stamped stoppers? An attempt to understand the process based on examples of finds from Berenike (Egypt) and Risan (Montenegro). In M. Bentz and M. Heinzelmann (eds), Archeology and Economy in the Ancient World 54. Sessions 4-5. Heidelberg, Propylaeum 2023, 397-400. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1005.c13506

Sidebotham, S.E., Ast, R., Kaper, O.E., Bajtler, M., Bartos, N., Geerts, R.C.A. Results of the Winter 2023 Excavation Season at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, Thetis 28, 2023, 7-16.

Nuovo, M.M.S., Zych, I., Collars on cats and dogs in life and in the afterlife: function and fashion in early Roman Egypt. In R. Pirelli, M.D. Pubblico, and S. Ikram (eds), Animals in Religion, Economy and Daily Life of Ancient Egypt and beyond (Studi Africanistici, Serie Egittologica 4), UniorPress, Napoli 2023, 291-310. https://www.academia.edu/112745279/Marina_M_S_Nuovo_and_Iwona_Zych_2023_Collars_on_Cats_and_Dogs_in_Life_and_in_the_Afterlife_Function_and_Fashion_in_Early_Roman_Egypt_R_Pirelli_M_D_Pubblico_and_S_Ikram_eds_Animals_Religion_Economy_and_Daily_Life_of_Ancient_Egypt_and_beyond_Naples_291_310

2024

Then-Obłuska, J., Adornment deposits: a study of bead and jewellery remains from Late Antiquity tombs in the Red Sea port of Berenike,Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. Azania 59(2), 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2024.2316527

Ast, R., An Inscription from the Reign of Probus: Reflections on the Port of Berenike in the Third Century CE. Pylos 5, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48631/pylon.2024.5.105730

Osypiński, P., Osypińska, M. Zych, I., Sidebotham, S., Carannante, A., Domżalski, K., Mandera, S., Popławski, Sz., Kucharczyk, R., Animal cemetery and caravan stop — investigating suburban space in a transcontinental port in Berenike (Red Sea, Egypt). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 59, 2024, 104779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104779