An archaeological investigation into the ancient nucleus of medieval and modern Cairo.
Peter Sheehan is an archaeologist who has been working on sites and historic buildings throughout the Middle East since 1989. He has a particular interest in urban formation processes and the development of the historic landscape and has published extensively on his continuing work in and around the Roman fortress of Babylon in Old Cairo and at the World Heritage Site of al-'Ain, where he has been Historic Buildings Manager with the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority since 2007.
"Every so often a book comes on the market which is extraordinary,
not only in production, layout, original photographs, plans and
line drawings, but also in ground-breaking content. Peter Sheehan's
Babylon of Egypt is one such book."--Al-Ahram Weekly
"A landmark study . . . . Highly recommended."--Choice
That Sheehan was obliged to operate on an essentially
rescue-archaeology basis makes the long list of achievements
documented in this book all the more remarkable. . . . Any research
that broadens our archaeological purview of Egypt to include the
brilliance of Egyptian history in the medieval period is a welcome
corrective to Egyptological obsessions and lingering and still
widespread Orientalist tropes that present Egyptian civilisation as
having ended with the death of Cleopatra. In contrast, Sheehan s
multi-periodic treatment of Babylon presents the Egyptian past as
an accretion of human action and occupation in which each layer of
human activity is contingent on and shaped by that which went
before. John P. Cooper, International Journal of Nautical
Archaeology
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