This topic provides information about the wide variety of research projects undertaken by the Center and its affiliates.
Ancient Celtic Names
The AWMC is collaborating with the Department of Welsh, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, on two of its projects, both directed by Patrick Sims-Williams, Professor of Celtic there (pps@aber.ac.uk). The first is ‘Ancient Celtic Place-Names in Europe and Asia Minor. The second project is ‘Celtic Compound Names in the Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire.’ [ read article ]
Barrington Atlas Update List
Get the latest updates and adjustments to the atlas. [ read article ]
Maps for Students
Cooperating with faculty at UNC-CH, and with the scholars who commission custom maps from the AWMC for their publications, we are developing a collection of free digital maps for educational use. This effort gives teachers and students an expanding set of small-scale reference maps for classroom and personal use. Each may be downloaded from the website in multiple formats. [ read article ]
Maps for the Visually Impaired
Jason Morris, Tom Elliott and Thomas Logan discuss the original BATS prototype, © UNC Gazette, 2002
The Ancient World Mapping Center is collaborating with faculty and students in the Department of Computer Science to develop and enhance free software to make maps and geographic data more accessible to the blind and visually impaired. This project is part of the CS Department’s wider assistive technology initiative, coordinated by Prof. Gary Bishop. New funds are needed to continue support for these projects! [ read article ]
A New Edition of Peutinger’s Roman Map
Detail of the Peutinger Map, Segment 5, image © 2004, AWMC
‘Peutinger’s’ map, as it is called — with its extraordinary 22 x 1 ft shape — survives as a priceless, yet isolated, curiosity, and treasured possession of Austria’s National Library, Vienna. With the assistance of Center staff, Richard Talbert is engaged in an effort to read the map afresh more critically with the support of up-to-date scholarship and technology, and to put forward answers to fundamental new questions about its design, purpose, and impact. This article provides a brief overview of the project. [ read article ]
Pleiades: Online Workspace for Ancient Geography
The Center plans a major initiative to develop a functioning, international community of scholars, teachers, students and enthusiasts to collaborate in the updating and expansion of the spatial and historical reference information assembled by the Classical Atlas Project. To underpin these efforts, the Center will develop a web-based, multi-lingual, spatially-enabled community support system, built using open-source software and made freely available for reuse by other projects. [ read article ]
Research Resources
This topic provides some highlights of the rich bibliographic, cartographic, computational and human resources that support the research and teaching work of the Ancient World Mapping Center and its visitors. [ read article ]
Teaching at the Ancient World Mapping Center
The staff and affiliates of the Ancient World Mapping Center are deeply engaged in the teaching mission of the university. This topic provides links to articles about related courses. [ read article ]
Wall Maps
Even in the digital age, wall maps depicting ancient landscapes, physical culture, languages and related themes can be essential teaching and learning tools in a variety of settings. The AWMC has begun work on the development of a new series of wall maps keyed to the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. This article provides a brief overview of status of that project, and also lists relevant wall maps currently available from other sources. [ read article ]
Where should I send comments, corrections or critiques of the Barrington Atlas?
The Ancient World Mapping Center has created a form to use for this purpose. You can find out more by visiting the Atlas update page. [ read article ]
