The Red Sea in Pharaonic Times. Recent Discoveries along the Red Sea Coast. Proceedings of the Colloquium held in Cairo/Ayn Soukhna 11th-12th January 2009. BiEtud 155.The long neglected red sea shore area has, over the past ten years, yielded a considerable amount of data that has enabled us to understand its specific role in pharaonic times. In 2001, fieldwork resumed in the former harbour of Mersa Gawasis, which was first identified by Abd el Moneim Sayed in 1977. The rich archaeological and epigraphical findings by a joint American Italian team demonstrated that the site was used throughout the 12th dynasty as a