Ancient World Mapping Center

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 […]

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 o […]

It has come to our attention that the gazetteer functionality was down. It has been fixed and should be functioning as normal.

We have received several queries about registration for the site and its effect on application functionality. User registration is for Wordpress portions of the website only (i.e. commenting on posts, creating […]

Introducing Benthos
AWMC is pleased to introduce a beta version of Benthos: Digital Atlas of Ancient Waters; at present this project is in its most preliminary changes, but as always AWMC welcomes feedback from […]

Benthos is a new initiative to catalog and map ancient shipwrecks and more. The project will provide interactive maps of Mediterranean shipping, bathymetric data, and views of ancient coastlines. Like the<a href="http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/alacarte/&quot; t […]