Rodney Ast

Rodney Ast is Academic Director in the Institute for Papyrology at Heidelberg University and co-director of the Berenike Excavation Project. His interests are in Greek and Latin papyrology and epigraphy, the archaeology and history of Greco-Roman Egypt and Red Sea/Indian Ocean trade. He has published extensively in papyrology and ancient history and is currently preparing a monograph about the port of Berenike based primarily on inscriptional and papyrological sources.