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Climate Change in the Breadbasket of the Roman Empire—Explaining the Decline of the Fayum Villages in the Third Century CE

Sabine R. Huebner
Journal: Studies in Late Antiquity
Studies in Late Antiquity (2020) 4 (4): 486–518.
https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2020.4.4.486
Published: 01 November 2020
... widespread food shortages and revolts and brought about the end of the Old Kingdom around 2,000 BCE. 1 Crisis of the Third Century Roman Egypt Water stress Settlement decline Late Holocene Nile The papyri bear witness to a dramatic struggle over shrinking resources that eventually led...
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