Dr. Nicola Aravecchia's Volume on a Fourth-Century Church at Amheida is Published

The latest volume from ISAW Monographs, Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church: Volume 1, The Excavations (Amheida VII) by Dr. Aravecchia has been published this September by The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press. This volume is the latest monograph in the Amheida series and the first volume dedicated to the archaeology of an early Christian church at Amheida, or the ancient city of Trimithis, in the Dakhla Oasis of the Western Desert of Egypt. In this volume,  Dr. Aravecchia presents an archaeological, historical, and art historical study of this early church (among the earliest purpose-built, basilica churches in Egypt to be scientifically explored) and its crypts, including a systematic treatment of the stratigraphy, building techniques, materials, features, architecture, decoration, and finds of the church.