Mersa/Wadi Gawasis is located 80 km south of Hurghada, it is the shortest overland route from the Red Sea to the Nile Valley. The site was surveyed many times; it was first misidentified as a Greco-Roman watering station. Later, in 1976, the site was discovered by Abdel Monem Sayed (Alexandria University), who identified the site as the Pharaonic harbor of (S3ww) or which was used for sea-faring expeditions to Punt. The archaeological expeditions at Mersa Gawasis were continued by the Italian-American team from 2001 until 2011. They uncovered seven man-made caves in the fossil reef; they were used as storage rooms for disassembled ships, stelae, limestone anchors, foreign ceramics, ropes, and wooden boxes labeled “Punt”. This paper delves into the historical development and emergence of Mersa/Wadi Gawasis as a strategic harbor in ancient Egypt. This study provides insight into the transformation of a historical coastal site that could be used as a tourist site.
Farid, M., Fekri, M., EL-Mahady, E., & Ezz-eldin, H. (2023). The Ancient Egyptian harbor of Mersa Gawasis from a touristic perspective. مجلة کلية السياحة والفنادق - جامعة مدينة السادات, 7(2), 180-194. doi: 10.21608/mfth.2023.331881
MLA
Mona Farid; Magdi Fekri; Eman EL-Mahady; Hesham Ezz-eldin. "The Ancient Egyptian harbor of Mersa Gawasis from a touristic perspective". مجلة کلية السياحة والفنادق - جامعة مدينة السادات, 7, 2, 2023, 180-194. doi: 10.21608/mfth.2023.331881
HARVARD
Farid, M., Fekri, M., EL-Mahady, E., Ezz-eldin, H. (2023). 'The Ancient Egyptian harbor of Mersa Gawasis from a touristic perspective', مجلة کلية السياحة والفنادق - جامعة مدينة السادات, 7(2), pp. 180-194. doi: 10.21608/mfth.2023.331881
VANCOUVER
Farid, M., Fekri, M., EL-Mahady, E., Ezz-eldin, H. The Ancient Egyptian harbor of Mersa Gawasis from a touristic perspective. مجلة کلية السياحة والفنادق - جامعة مدينة السادات, 2023; 7(2): 180-194. doi: 10.21608/mfth.2023.331881
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