Ancient World Mapping Center

The Center is pleased to announce a new entry in our Maps for Texts Series. The single, static map (available via dropbox) plots Theophanes’ journeys between Hermopolis and Antioch in the early fourth century C. […]

The fourteenth workshop of the network Impact of Empire will take place in Mainz (Germany), June 12-15, 2019, with as its subject: The impact of Empire on Roman landscapes.
Committee: Marietta […]

Another book of interest for those who study the geography of Asia Minor was published earlier this year. Anca Dan and Stéphane Lebreton’s co-edited second volume of Études des fleuves d’Asie Mineure dans l’Ant […]

Duane Roller’s A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo was published in February to accompany his translation of Strabo’s Geography. Details can be found here.

Those with interest in ge […]

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER

With Elizabeth Robinson continuing as Acting Director and the opportunity to secure Ross Twele as Cartographic Assistant for both semesters, the Center has been able to achieve […]

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER

This year the Center has notably advanced its goals and was particularly pleased to demonstrate its ongoing activities to a large group of enthusiastic W.P. Cummings Map Society […]

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER

This has been a year of successful transition for the Center, set in motion above all by the award of full funding ($389,883) by the National Endowment for the Humanities […]

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER

The College of Arts and Sciences, together with the Departments of History and Classics, continue to provide essential support for core operations of the Ancient World Mapping […]

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER

Through the generous support of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Departments of History and Classics, the National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant Program and […]

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER
The 2002-2003 ancient year has been a busy and successful one for the Ancient World Mapping Center. Several efforts have seen significant advancement including our Maps for Students […]

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER
The past year has been an excellent growth year for the Ancient World Mapping Center with important advances made in several areas.
Institutional and private donations have brought […]

ATLAS OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD

In May, project director and editor Richard Talbert joined two experts from MapQuest.com and a designer from Princeton University Press to oversee the press run for […]

ATLAS OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD
For information on this project and on how to order the publications now available, please visit its Web Page at http://www.unc.edu/depts/cl_atlas. In what has been the most […]

Congratulations to former director Ryan Horne for receiving a NEH-Mellon Digital Publication grant for his work Understanding Ancient Economic and Social Networks Based on Evidence from Aeolian Coins. Read more at […]

Please feel encouraged to visit the call for session #29 “Mapping the Edge of Empire” at limes2018.org/themes-and-sessions/#29 and to propose a paper by March 1, 2018.

The Center is excited to announce a new addition to the Maps for Texts series, an interactive web map of Hierokles’ Synekdemos, available here.  The map follows Hierokles’ text in Ernest Honigmann’s edition (Brus […]

Anyone with an interest in the fields of the history of science and cartography should read two important new books. The first, A Companion to Science, Technology and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome by Georgia […]

5-1-2016 to 4-30-2017

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

Yet again this has been an extremely active year at the Center, with the production of multiple commissioned maps, the completion of […]

A new article by Kurt Raaflaub and John Ramsey in Histos 11 is sure to interest practitioners of ancient cartography and GIS.  In “Reconstructing the Chronology of Caesar’s Gallic Wars,” Raaflaub and Ramsay make he […]

AWMC is excited to launch a new series of “Maps for Texts,” providing accurate, high-quality maps for a variety of ancient documents which otherwise last them.  For the first entry in the series, we have produced […]