AWMC Map Tiles

This MOOC due to start in September uses maps made by the Center, among many other materials, and may be of interest. Visit https://www.ancientcities.eu/mooc for information.

Just published by Oxford University Press. Riggsby examines five technologies including mapping (the others are lists, tables, weights and measures, artistic perspective).

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For program and further details, visit https://www.ku.de/ggf/geschichte/altegesch/aktuelles/

5-1-2018 to 4-30-2019

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

This has been a very productive year for the Center in a notable variety of ways.  Two especially satisfying highlights were a […]

SCS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 4, 2019

Invited Sesquicentennial Panel

Mapping the Classical World Since 1869: Past and Future Directions

Organizer & chair: Richard Talbert, […]

The Center is pleased to announce that the latest entry in the Maps for Texts series, Dionysius of Byzantium, Anaplous of the Bosporus, is now available. The Center’s single, static map is at a scale of 1:100,000. […]

The seven large Wall Maps produced by the Center and published by Routledge in 2011 have gone out of print, and the rights have reverted to the Center. We are pleased to make all seven available digitally (Map 6 […]

The Center is happy to announce our latest entry: The Black Sea Region Described by Arrian around 130 C.E., in the Maps for Texts series is now available online. The single static map matches the scale (1:750,000) […]

Digital Cartography: New Maps, Ancient History

Nov. 2-3, 2018

A conference co-sponsored by the Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Duke University’s Departments of C […]

AWMC Founder Richard Talbert’s new book, Challenges of Mapping the Classical World is now available from Routledge, in hardcover and as an e-book.

About the book: Challenges of Mapping the Classical Wo […]

Due to Hurricane Florence, the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to September 19, 2018.

Digital Cartography: New Maps, Ancient History

November 2 and 3, 2018

at Duke University and the […]

5-1-2017 to 4-30-2018

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

This year too has been an extremely active one for the Center.  Not only did the range of ongoing activities continue very productive, […]

A database of all place names in Tabula Imperii Byzantini I–9 is now available at https://tib.oeaw.ac.at/index.php?seite=digtib

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 […]