In the millennium after 300 BC, the western Indian Ocean emerged as a main hub of Old
World exchange. Study of this commerce long depended on separate regional …

In conquering Egypt, the Roman Empire secured direct access to the centuries-old Indian
Ocean trade network that in Roman times brought together China, India, Southeast Asia …

In Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew
Adam Cobb examines the development of commercial exchange between the …

Ever since Wheeler's triumphant discovery of Roman pottery at Arikamedu in the 1940s, it
has been appreciated that the east coast of India was in reach of the Roman Empire …

This book is a revised and enlarged version of my PhD thesis in History (Worlds Apart
Trading Together—the organisation of long-distance trade between the Mediterranean and …

Investigations in 2010 by an international team of maritime archaeologists yielded a
concentration of artefacts identified here by the authors as the remains of a shipwreck off the …

There has been a continuing debate about the extent to which the R oman E mpire suffered
an economic imbalance in its trade with India (and more broadly the E ast), that is to say …

The transformation of mature (urbanized) phase of the ancient Indus civilisation between∼
4200 and 3800 years Before Present (yr BP) overlaps with the beginning of the Meghalayan …

India has played a major role in Indian Ocean trade and the development of shipbuilding
technology. The study of the maritime history of India commenced in the first decade of the …

Important archaeological sites of our investigation include Dwarka, Bet Dwarka, Kindar
Kheda, Pindara, Somnath and sites in Gulf of Khambhat and evidences recorded from these …