8:17 a.m., Oct. 23, 2009----The University of Delaware Library announces that Steven E. Sidebotham, UD professor of history, will present a lecture titled “Berenike: University of Delaware's Archaeological Excavations 1994-2001 and 2009 at a Red Sea Port on the Ancient Maritime Spice Route" at noon, Monday, Nov. 2, in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room in the Morris Library.

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The lecture is part of the University of Delaware Library Assembly of Professional Staff (UDLAPS) Scholar and the Library Series.

The brown-bag luncheon program with light refreshments is open to the public.

Sidebotham specializes in ancient history. His research interests include commercial and cultural contacts between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean basins in Hellenistic-Roman times (4th century BC to the 7th century AD).

Most of his research involves archaeological fieldwork in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean basins. His ongoing excavations at Berenike, on the Red Sea coast of Egypt -- conducted jointly with the Polish Center for Mediterranean Archaeology of Warsaw University -- have contributed extensively to knowledge of the ancient global economic-cultural network.

The results are highlighted in a number of volumes and articles on the results of his fieldwork including his recent book The Red Land. The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert (Cairo-New York, American University in Cairo Press, 2008).