This paper attempts to provide evidence for the relationship that existed between East Africa and the Middle East from about the beginning of the first millennium BC to the mid-second millennium AD. The paper brings together written and archaeological evidence showing that, in different time periods, both cultural and economic links existed between the two regions to varying degrees depending on the balance of power around the Red Sea and in the north Indian Ocean. While the evidence for the first millennium BC is still fragile, that of the period nearing the BC/AD changeover and thereafter is now quite solid and seems incontrovertible. There are reports of individuals from the Greco-Roman world and from the Middle East who claimed to have ...
Since the second millennium BC, East Africa has been connected with oceanic exchange networks and ha...
International audienceLes développements historiques de l'Afrique de l'Est sont éclairés par les cyc...
Throughout the western Indian Ocean during the XIXth Century there were not just one, but people fr...
This paper attempts to provide evidence for the relationship that existed between East Africa and th...
International audienceThis paper analyzes long distance economic relations between Africa and Asia t...
From the second millennium BC, East Africa has been connected with oceanic exchange networks and has...
Scientific as well as historic explanations to the origin of man agreed that Africa is the cradle an...
Archaeological approaches to the study of Indian Ocean connections tend to focus on “foreign” object...
One of the characteristics of the East African Coast has been its accessibility. The sea has been a ...
In this article, we examine an assumption about the historic Swahili of the eastern African coast: t...
International audienceThe communication exhibits results of my current PhD research dealing with the...
Africans from the Red Sea and East Africa ('the African diaspora') were dispersed throughout the A...
The Meroitic Empire was a powerful Kushite state in the Middle Nile region of the Sudan, lasting fro...
Since the second millennium BC, East Africa has been connected with oceanic exchange networks and ha...
International audienceLes développements historiques de l'Afrique de l'Est sont éclairés par les cyc...
Throughout the western Indian Ocean during the XIXth Century there were not just one, but people fr...
This paper attempts to provide evidence for the relationship that existed between East Africa and th...
International audienceThis paper analyzes long distance economic relations between Africa and Asia t...
From the second millennium BC, East Africa has been connected with oceanic exchange networks and has...
Scientific as well as historic explanations to the origin of man agreed that Africa is the cradle an...
Archaeological approaches to the study of Indian Ocean connections tend to focus on “foreign” object...
One of the characteristics of the East African Coast has been its accessibility. The sea has been a ...
In this article, we examine an assumption about the historic Swahili of the eastern African coast: t...
International audienceThe communication exhibits results of my current PhD research dealing with the...
Africans from the Red Sea and East Africa ('the African diaspora') were dispersed throughout the A...
The Meroitic Empire was a powerful Kushite state in the Middle Nile region of the Sudan, lasting fro...
Since the second millennium BC, East Africa has been connected with oceanic exchange networks and ha...
International audienceLes développements historiques de l'Afrique de l'Est sont éclairés par les cyc...
Throughout the western Indian Ocean during the XIXth Century there were not just one, but people fr...