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admin wrote a new post, Special Deal: Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 2 years, 11 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Two Publications of Interest, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 2 years, 12 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Annual Report 2015-2016, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 3 years, 4 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Licensing Adjustments, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 3 years, 6 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Updates to the Antiquity A-la-Carte License, on the site Antiquity À-la-carte 3 years, 6 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, “Mapping the Past” Videos Now Available, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 3 years, 7 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Announcing AWMC Conference 2016, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 3 years, 9 months ago

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 […]

admin commented on the post, Upcoming AWMC Conference & Call for Papers, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 3 years, 11 months ago

For more information, you can call 919-962-0502 and leave a voicemail. Alternately, you’re welcome to email awmc@unc.edu.
Thanks!
-Gabe

admin wrote a new post, Two New Publications, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 4 years, 1 month ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Forthcoming Publication, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 4 years, 2 months ago

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.

admin commented on the post, Printing Struggles, on the site Antiquity À-la-carte 4 years, 4 months ago

Thanks for letting me know. I’m looking into the issue, and will post again (hopefully with good news) when I know more.

admin wrote a new post, AWMC Annual Report 2014-2015, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 4 years, 4 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Upcoming Peutinger Map Conference, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 4 years, 4 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Pleiades Wins Grant, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 4 years, 4 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Campus Martius Book Released by Cambridge University Press, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 4 years, 10 months ago

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 […]

admin wrote a new post, Cambridge University Press Publishes The Medieval Peutinger Map, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 5 years, 2 months ago

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

admin wrote a new post, Barrington Atlas Application mentioned in the New York Times, on the site Ancient World Mapping Center 5 years, 3 months ago

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

admin commented on the post, Printing Struggles, on the site Antiquity À-la-carte 5 years, 7 months ago

It is set up now to automatically add the print service if the server is up, so it is almost certainly down. We are currently working with ITS at UNC to recompile and restructure the server, which will hopefully […]

admin wrote a new post, New Public Map Tiles and Antiquity À-la-carte 3.0 Beta, on the site Antiquity À-la-carte 5 years, 10 months ago