Entre Afrique et Égypte : relations et échanges entre les espaces du sud de la Méditerranée à l'époque romaine

North Africa and antique Egypt draw very different cultural areas, where contacts have built pieces of a common history. The relations between North Africa and Egypt already have a long history when this space, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, is unified for the first time by the Roman State, which reduces Cleopatra’s kingdom to Roman province. It controls henceforth, in the first century AD, all the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The political and administrative unification of Africa and Egypt, under surveillance of the Roman authority, creates new conditions of exchanges. These exchanges concern not only persons and goods, but also ideas. These links take an important part in the construction of some common culture between North Africa and Egypt; if these features have been perceptible long before the takeover by Rome, their form and their expression evolve significantly during Roman times.