Myos Hormos (Ancient Greek: Μυὸς Ὅρμος) was a Red Sea port founded by the Ptolemy II Philadelphus upon a headland of similar name, around the 3rd century BC.[1] Later, it was renamed to Aphrodites Hormos (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτης ὅρμος) but the elder appellation is more generally retained.[1]
Following excavations carried out recently by David Peacock and Lucy Blue of the University of Southampton, it is thought to have been located on the present-day site of Quseir al-Quadim (old Quseir), eight kilometres north of the modern town of El Qoseir in Egypt.[2]
^ abDictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MYOS-HORMOS
^"Cane (Qana')". Maritime Incense Route. Retrieved 7 Dec 2008.
MyosHormos (Ancient Greek: Μυὸς Ὅρμος) was a Red Sea port founded by the Ptolemy II Philadelphus upon a headland of similar name, around the 3rd century...
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the lives of soldiers stationed in the Eastern Desert along the Coptos–MyosHormos road and at the imperial granite quarry at Mons Claudianus.: 72 Another...
emperor Augustus, up to 120 Roman ships would set sail every year from MyosHormos in Roman Egypt to India. With the development of trade routes under the...
learned that as many as one hundred and twenty vessels were sailing from MyosHormos to India, whereas formerly, under the Ptolemies, only a very few ventured...
trade with India, up to 120 ships were setting sail every year from MyosHormos to India. Gold coins, used for this trade, was apparently being recycled...
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