With this topic we bring together articles on the Center’s website — as well as materials elsewhere on the web — that provide information on the many sites, regions, peoples and geographic features of the ancient world. Please tell us about web sites we have missed.
Articles are summarized below in alphabetical order.
Amuq Valley Regional Projects
A series of archaeological projects in Turkey, operated under the aegis of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago [ read article ]
Anastasian Wall Project
Survey project focusing on long walls in Thrace. [ read article ]
Archaeological Survey in the Chora of Metaponto
The Metaponto Chora Survey website, a project of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas, includes a preliminary overview of settlement trends and survey data for download in GIS formats. [ read article ]
Archaeology in the Reconstruction of Beirut
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Art and Archaeology of Attica
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Capitolium.org (Rome's Imperial Forums / Fori Imperiali di Roma)
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Corinth Computer Project
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Digital Archaeological Map of Lasithi, Eastern Crete
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Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey
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Fayum Project
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First inscription naming Londinium?
On 11 October 2002 various news
agencies reported that archaeologists excavating a site in Southwark had unearthed a marble plaque inscribed with what may be the
earliest known epigraphic attestation of London’s Latin name from the environs of the capital itself ... The
stone bears a religious dedication by an individual who describes himself by the mysterious title of
moritix Londiniensium
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S. Corcoran, B. Salway and P. Salway for the British Epigraphy Society Newsletter n.s. 8 (Autumn 2002), 10-12). [ read article ]
Gardom's Edge: Archaeological Investigations of a Peakland Landscape
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GIS of Rural Sanctuaries in Abruzzo (Central Italy)
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Guardian: Death on the Nile (Abydos)
In a story entitled “Death on the Nile”, we are given an overview of the excavation history and on-going work at the site of Abydos in Egypt. [ read article ]
Hadrian’s Wall from Housesteads
Hadrian’s Wall, © 2002, Charles Crowther
This photograph, taken by Charles Crowther, shows a portion of Hadrian’s Wall and the topography its designers exploited when siting it. The camera looks east, along the wall from a point just west of its intersection with the Roman fort at Housesteads. Although it is one of the most well known Roman monuments in Britain, the wall — together with other Roman sites in the area — persist as an active focus of research. [ read article ]
Harappa: The Indus Valley and the Raj in India and Pakistan
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Hill of Tara threatened by roadway construction
One of the most important
archaeological sites in Ireland ... [is] threatened by a proposed
major highway ... that will cut through the landscape and divorce Tara from the related sites that surround it.
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[ read article ]
Household and City Organization at Olynthus
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Iklaina Archaeological Project
The IKAP website provides information about an archaeological project and associated summer travel/study course (including an archaeological field school) focused on the area around the bronze age site of Iklaina in the southwest Peloponnese in Greece. [ read article ]
Kerkenes Project
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Metis
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Nemea Valley Archaeological Project: Archaeological Survey: Intenet Edition
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Offa's Dyke and the Offa's Dyke Initiative
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Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia
Excavations at the site of Isthmia in Greece (an important pan-hellenic sanctuary of Poseidon) have been going on since the 1950s. At present, excavations are conducted by two American projects, one run by the University of Chicago, the other by the Ohio State University. The OSU project maintains an extensive website related to the excavations. [ read article ]
Ostia: Harbour of Ancient Rome
Street of the Casa di Diana, © Tom Elliott, 1988
The Ostia Antica website is a fantastic and growing on-line resource of images, texts, explanatory essays and other information about the ancient site of Ostia, Rome’s original harbor city. [ read article ]
Ostia in the Italian Media
Via a recent post to the Ostia-L list, Martin Conde alerted us to the online publication of news stories about the ancient site of Ostia. [ read article ]
Pompeii Forum Project
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Projekti Arkeologjik i Rajonit Mallakastër / Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project
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Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: Internet Edition
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Roman Gask Project
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Roman weapons depot discovered at Göttingen
Discovered in 1985 by metal detectorists, this German site is now being excavated. [ read article ]
Siwa Oasis: Dialogue with Amun
Al-Ahram has an excellent feature on the Siwah Oasis [ read article ]
Sphakia Survey: Internet Edition
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Sydney Cyprus Survey Project
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Theban Mapping Project
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Tour of Caistor Roman Town
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Unearthing the First Olympics: Nemea
Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea. ©1988, Tom Elliott
In a recent post to AegeaNet, Martha Payne alerted us to an NPR story entitled “Unearthing the First Olympics: Archeologists Rebuild Olympic Games Site in Nemea.” This NPR Radio Expeditions piece (which has an on-line summary and audio copy) provides an interesting update on the well-preserved stadium at Nemea, and on the current state of research and restoration work at the site. [ read article ]
UNESCO Updates World Heritage List
The 28th annual session of the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre has just concluded. During the session, the committee’s members revised the World Heritage List, bringing to 788 the number of properties identified world-wide as natural or cultural heritage treasures. [ read article ]
Unplundered Mycenean Tomb Discovered
By way of a note to AegeaNet, Birgitta Eder (Mycenean Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences), alerted us to a story in today’s e-kathimerini: the discovery of an unplundered Mycenean tomb near Peristeri in the southern Peloponnese (near Sparta). [ read article ]
La Vienne Antique
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Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum
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Water Supply of Constantinople
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