الدلالات الحضارية للكتابات العربية القديمة في صحراء مصر الشرقية

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The ancient Arab inscriptions in the eastern desert of Egypt

The ancient Arab inscriptions and writings are considered the most important legacy of the ancient merchant caravans at the sites and stations spread in the valleys of the eastern desert of Egypt, especially the trade routes linking the Arab countries and the Red Sea with the cities of the Nile Valley.

As these writings spread from Wadi Tumailat, which represents the northern border of the Eastern Desert, where the Shaqafiyya site was found in which two Nabataean inscriptions were found, and al-Maskhutah site where Aramaic inscriptions were found, and then these writings continue to exist whenever we head south to the Bir Mneih area on the Qaft Bernice road, This research deals with an inventory of these sites and a study of their inscriptions and writings, some of which were mentioned in references, and the other was recorded by the researcher through field visits to some sites.

By researching, it was found that the ancient Arabic writings spread in the eastern desert of Egypt consist of Nabataean inscriptions, Aramaic, Thamudic, Maaina and Hadrami inscriptions.

By studying the content of these writings, it was found that they have Religious, Social, Linguistic, Economic and Political connotations, and that they denote the mutual relations between the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and ancient Egypt from The 5th century BC, until The 4th century AD.