1. The Egyptians on the Red Sea Shore during the Pharaonic Era / Pierre Tallet --
2. Ship-related Activities at the Pharaonic Harbour of Mersa Gawasis / Cheryl Ward and Chiara Zazzaro --
3. Living in the Egyptian Ports: Daily Life at Berenike and Myos Hormos / Roberta Tomber --
4. Al-Shihr, an Islamic Harbour of Yemen on the Indian Ocean (AD 780-2007) / Claire Hardy-Guilbert --
5. Indian Inscriptions from Cave Hoq at Socotra / Inga Strauch --
6. 'Places of Call' in Madagascar and the Comoros Terminology and Types of Settlement / Claude Allibert --
7. The Port of Sumhuram: Recent Data and Fresh Reflections on its History / Alessandra Avanzini --
8. Ports of the Indian Ocean: the Port of Spanish Charax / Jean-Baptiste Yon --
9. Towards a Geography of the Harbours in the Persian Gulf in Antiquity (Sixth Century BC-Sixth Century AD) --
Jean-François Salles --
Ancient Ports and Maritime Contects of India --
10. The Ports of the Western Coast of India according to Arabic Geographers (Eighth-Fifteenth Centuries AD): A Glimpse into the Geography / Jean-Charles Ducène --
11. Ports of Western India in Latin Cartographic Sources, c.1200-1500: Toponymy, Localization and Evolutions / Emmanuelle Vagnon --
12. Ancient Technology of Jetties and Anchorage System along the Saurashtra Coast, India / A.S. Gaur and Sundaresh --
13. Bharuch Fort during the pre-Sultanate Period / Sara Keller --
14. The Archaeological Project of Bassein's Portuguese Settlement: A New Appraisal / Dejanirah Couto --
15. Mamallapuram, the Port City: New Revelations / Sathyabhama Badhreenath --
16. The Routes of Early Historic Tamil Nadu, South India / V. Selvakumar --
17. Routes, Ports and Networks in Bengal: China Connection / Rila Mukherjee --
18. 'Describing a Lost Camel' --
Clues for West Asian Mercantile Networks in South Asian Maritime Trade (Tenth-Twelfth Centuries AD) / Elizabeth Lambourn --
Relatd Areas: Sri Lanka, South-East Asia --
19. The Oldest Shipwreck in the Indian Ocean / Osmund Bopearachchi, Senarath Disanayaka and Nimal Perera --
20. Environment, Infrastructure and Nature of Ports in Ancient Sri Lanka: Archaeological Evidence from the Port, Monastery, Town and Shipwreck of Godavaya (Godapavata Pattana) / Oliver Kessler --
21. The Citadel of Tissamaharama: Urban Habitat and Commercial Interrelations / Heidrun Schenk and Hans-Joachim Weisshaar --
22. The Inception of the Transnational Processes between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea from an Early City-State on the Thai-Malay Peninsula (Fourth-Second Century BCE) / Bérénice Bellina --
French Archives --
23. The French Dépôt des Fortifications des Colonies Records of the Colonies Fortifications: India Files (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries AD) / Marie-Paule Blasini --
24. Portraits of Louis XV and Marie Leszczinzka by Carle Van Loo (Presidential Gallery, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi) / Jean-Marie Lafont.

Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean looks at the multisided role that ‘ports’ played in the exchange and transfer of knowledge between the ‘Indian Ocean’ and Mediterranean societies. Through the early Greek Periplus to minute descriptions by the Portuguese in the late sixteenth century or French archives of the colonial period, an accurate knowledge was gradually developed and transmitted on what is now called the Indian Ocean.