The Department of Art History and Archaeology is pleased to announce that Dr. Nicola Aravecchia's book Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert was recently published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World/New York University Press. It is the final archaeological report of three seasons of excavation and survey (plus two study seasons) carried out at a Late Antique site in the Oasis of Dakhla (Western Desert of Upper Egypt). The first part of the book introduces and discusses the archaeological evidence, including a 4th-century church complex and a pagan temple that was turned into a ceramic workshop in Late Antiquity. The second part of the volume includes contributions by specialists on ceramics, coins, other categories of small finds, and faunal remains from the excavations.
