Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt

by Walter Scheidel

A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and beyond.
Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient census data and funerary commemorations to modern medical accounts, statistics and demographic models, the author explores the nature of premodern disease...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004123237
• ISBN13: 9789004123236
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.7"