Claire Malleson is an archaeologist specializing in the study of ancient plants and their relevance to Egyptian civilization. She completed her PhD in Archaeology (Egyptology) at the University of Liverpool and has a special interest in the history of the Fayum and its landscape.

"Clare Malleson’s thorough and detailed piece is a tour de force, covering, as it does, the whole sweep of its history from the Palaeolithic period right up to modern times."—Hilary Forrest, Ancient Egypt Magazine

• List of FiguresAknowledgmentsTimeline1. The Landscape: the Fayum2. Academic Landscape: Theory in Archaeology and Geography3. Landscape of the Lake: the ancient Egyptian Fayum (7500 – 332 BC4. Changing Landscape: Herodotus and the Greco-Roman - Late Antique Fayum (450BC – AD 700)5. Legendary Landscape: Medieval Islamic Accounts AD 860 – 14426. Explored Landscape: Western accounts - 17th–19th centuryBibliographyIndex

Claire Malleson is an archaeologist specializing in the study of ancient plants and their relevance to Egyptian civilization. She completed her PhD in Archaeology (Egyptology) at the University of Liverpool and has a special interest in the history of the Fayum and its landscape.

"Clare Malleson’s thorough and detailed piece is a tour de force, covering, as it does, the whole sweep of its history from the Palaeolithic period right up to modern times."—Hilary Forrest, Ancient Egypt Magazine

• List of FiguresAknowledgmentsTimeline1. The Landscape: the Fayum2. Academic Landscape: Theory in Archaeology and Geography3. Landscape of the Lake: the ancient Egyptian Fayum (7500 – 332 BC4. Changing Landscape: Herodotus and the Greco-Roman - Late Antique Fayum (450BC – AD 700)5. Legendary Landscape: Medieval Islamic Accounts AD 860 – 14426. Explored Landscape: Western accounts - 17th–19th centuryBibliographyIndex

Claire Malleson is an archaeologist specializing in the study of ancient plants and their relevance to Egyptian civilization. She completed her PhD in Archaeology (Egyptology) at the University of Liverpool and has a special interest in the history of the Fayum and its landscape.

"Clare Malleson’s thorough and detailed piece is a tour de force, covering, as it does, the whole sweep of its history from the Palaeolithic period right up to modern times."—Hilary Forrest, Ancient Egypt Magazine

• List of FiguresAknowledgmentsTimeline1. The Landscape: the Fayum2. Academic Landscape: Theory in Archaeology and Geography3. Landscape of the Lake: the ancient Egyptian Fayum (7500 – 332 BC4. Changing Landscape: Herodotus and the Greco-Roman - Late Antique Fayum (450BC – AD 700)5. Legendary Landscape: Medieval Islamic Accounts AD 860 – 14426. Explored Landscape: Western accounts - 17th–19th centuryBibliographyIndex