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Introduction, Mario Liverani
- Steps and timing of the desertification during Late Antiquity. The case study of the Tanezzuft oasis (Libyan Sahara), Mauro Cremaschi
- Populations of the Roman era in Central Sahara: skeletal samples from the Fezzan (south-western Libya) in a diachronic perspective, Giorgio Manzi and Francesca Ricci
- Aghram Nadharif and the southern border of the Garamantian kingdom, Mario Liverani
- Farming the Sahara: the Garamantian contribution in southern Libya, David Mattingly and Andrew Wilson
- Water management at Pantelleria in Punic-Roman times, Vittorio Castellani and Simone Mantellini
- Napata, the destroyed city. A method for plundering, Alessandro Roccati
- The kingdom of Kush: Rome’s neightbour on the Nile, Derek Welsby
- Trade and caravan routes in Meroitic times, Irene Vincentelli
- Ptolemaic and Roman water resources and their management in the eastern desert of Egypt, Steven E. Sidebotham
- Between the Nile and the Red Sea. Imperial trade and barbarians, Federico De Romanis
- The ancient landscape of Aksum (northern Ethiopia), ca 400 BC- AD 700: some preliminary remarks, Rodolfo Fattovich
- The sustainable Sabean irrigation in Yemen, Ueli Brunner
- Tamna, ancient capital of the Yemen desert. Information about the first two excavation campaigns (1999, 2000), Alessandro De Maigret
- ‘Centre-periphery’ relations in pre-islamic south Arabia, Alessandra Avanzini