Abstrakt
The caravan routes and stations on them were important landmarks in the desert landscape. The objective of the paper is to outline the links between the economic situation and the caravan routes in the Egyptian Western Desert in the late Roman Period, and to present the whole topic within the context of the Mediterranean region in those times.
The paper involves routes between the oases in the Western Desert (Bahariya and el-Hayz, Dakhla, Kharga, Siwa, Farafra) as well as the routes connecting the oases with the Nile Valley, and the Mediterranean coast. As references and sources were used not only the works of antique authors, but also the publications and papers of the archaeologists of the 19th and early 20th century, and the excavations results of contemporary archaeological expeditions.