Ancient World Mapping Center

Anyone interested in ancient space and geography should take a look at Dr. Daniel Gargola’s new book, The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and Its Spaces, out soon from UNC Press.  Featuring several maps pr […]

AWMC Founder Richard Talbert’s new book, Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand is now available for preorder from Oxford University Press.  Featuring numerous maps and illustrations prepared by the M […]

Anyone interested in G.I.S. reconstructions of the ancient world should check out a wonderful review article published in the latest edition of Early Christian Studies.  Written by former AWMC Director Sarah Bond […]

5-1-15 to 4-30-16

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER (http://awmc.unc.edu)

For 2015-2016, the seemingly routine annual claim that the past year has been busier than ever is no exaggeration for sure.  Not only did […]

As part of a broader project to remove needless restrictions on our data (see last week’s changes to A-la-Carte), as of June 8, 2016, all shapefiles on our Resources page are now available under the Open Database […]

As of June 1, 2016, all content on the Antiquity A-la-Carte site is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).  This license replaces the old Creative Commons A […]

The recordings of last month’s conference are now up on YouTube.  If you couldn’t make it to the conference, you can now watch the proceedings.  Thanks again to everyone who made the event possible, and for all o […]

Mapping the Past: GIS Approaches to Ancient History
April 7-9, 2016
The Ancient World Mapping Center is very excited to announce that it’s first ever academic conference will be held on April 7-9 on the campus […]

Two recently published books hold great importance for the study of ancient geography and cartography.  Volume 15 of the Tabula Imperii Byzantini presents a formidable array of information on the geo […]

Noteworthy for its excellent maps of the ancient world, Timothy Bruce Mitford’s East of Asia: Rome’s Hidden Frontier will appear in February, 2016 from Oxford University Press.

5-1-14 to 4-30-15

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER (http://awmc.unc.edu)

This has been another very productive year for the Center.  Its publicly accessible map tiles, released last year, were significantly […]

Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt has announced the program for their upcoming conference on the Peutinger Map.  Bringing together presenters from more than half-a-dozen countries, the conference runs Oc […]

AWMC Founding Director Thomas Elliott and the Pleiades Project have received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The grant will fund “substantive changes to the technical and […]

This handsome new study by Paul W. Jacobs II and Diane Atnally Conlin, Campus Martius: the Field of Mars In the Life of Ancient Rome (isbn: 9781107664920), with several maps made at the Center, is now available fr […]

Emily Albu’s new monograph is forthcoming imminently from Cambridge University Press ( ISBN: 9781107059429), a very handsome volume (we have seen an advance copy).

The New York Times has favorably reviewed the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World for the iPad. You can read the review here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/books/review/gateways-to-the-classical-world.html

The AWMC is proud to announce the release of a series of geographically accurate, publicly accessible map tiles (http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/tiles/ ), suitable for use in nearly any web mapping application or […]