Ancient World Mapping Center

5-1-13 to 4-30-14 

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

Among the projects undertaken by the Center during this very active year two major preoccupations stand out.  One was the initiative to r […]

Prof. Richard Talbert’s (UNC Chapel Hill) monograph Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered is now available in paperback from Cambridge University Press.  The companion website to this study, created by the A […]

The University of North Carolina’s ITS Research Computing Group is hosting its first annual Research Computing Symposium today (20 May) at the Carolina Club in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center.  Ryan Horne, in […]

HGIS Carolina is hosting a Student Showcase today (April 3) from 3:30-5:00p “to allow UNC students to present their work using GIS to study, reconstruct, and visualize the past.”  Ross Twele, Ryan Horne, and M […]

This afternoon, the Ancient World Mapping Center is participating in The University of North Carolina‘s annual University Research Day.  The Center will be displaying a poster collage of our latest research and […]

The British Institute at Ankara, in collaboration with Ankara University, is hosting the conference Pathways of Communication: Roads and Routes in Anatolia from Prehistory to Seljuk Times March 20-22, 2014 on t […]

Matthew Edney, director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has produced an annotated bibliography on “History of Cartography” for Oxford Bibliographies Online.  This b […]

The second edition of A Brief History of the Romans by M. T. Boatwright, D. Gargola, N. Lenski, and R. J. A. Talbert is now available from Oxford University Press, featuring new map content generated by the […]

Princeton University Press and the Ancient World Mapping Center are pleased to announce the release of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World app for iPad 2+ on November 21, 2013.  For the full press r […]

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World has announced its next exhibition, Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity, to be held October 4, 2013 – January 5, 2014.  For f […]

George Bevan and Daryn Lehoux of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, CA and Richard Talbert of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have published a new article, Reflectance Transformation […]

Power supply issues in Chapel Hill NC could affect the functionality of the server hosting this site.

Power supply issues in Chapel Hill NC could effect the functionality of the server hosting this site.

AWMC’s partners at the Pleiades Project have created a range of accuracy assessments related to geographic content derived from the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. These accuracy assessments are t […]

Overview
The 2012-2013 academic year has been an extremely busy and productive time at the Ancient World Mapping Center. These activities and accomplishments are summarized below.
Technology
An invaluable […]

The 2013 Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI) will take place from May 30th to June 1st 2013 on the campus of Drew University. Organized by Tom Elliott (ISAW), Sebastian Heath (ISAW), and John Muccigrosso […]

Chinese scholar Feng Ding Xiong has produced a new monograph entitled Roman Roads and Roman Society that has now been issued by the China Social Sciences Press (pub. date 2012; ISBN-13: 9787516113813). It does […]

Due to a brief storm-related power outage in Chapel Hill NC, user may experience problems with AWMC apps until service is restored. thank you.

On May 3, 2013, Richard Talbert will present the 2013 Josephine Earle Memorial Lecture at Hunter College in New York City. The topic of the lecture will be “The World of Roman Sundials: Space, Time, Imagination” […]

Publisher I. B. Tauris has re-printed William Smith’s landmark nineteenth century work An Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical: Maps of the Ancient World. The new edition includes an introduction wr […]