AWMC Map Tiles

Princeton University Library in collaboration with Richard Talbert has released Part IV in their exhibition on the cartography of the late Ottoman Empire.  The project is available at this link.

The Ancient World Mapping Center is excited to announce the release of the latest item in its Maps for Texts series: Catholic and Donatist Bishoprics in North Africa around the Time of the Conference of Ca […]

5-1-2022 to 4-30-2023 ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER (http://awmc.unc.edu)

The plan was that this should be a transitional year with minimal staff dedicated primarily to completing projects and readying the […]

Available here:

World and Hour in Roman Minds – Richard J. A. Talbert – Oxford University Press (oup.com)

Part I of the exhibition can now be viewed, but – apologies – the url has changed to: https://arcg.is/PTCOm

The exhibition will be launched with a talk at Princeton University Library on Monday, December 5th.  To register, visit https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/9924868.

To view the exhibition from December 5 […]

This article by Richard Talbert has just been published in the online journal History of Classical Scholarship. Here is the link: https://www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/79

Assistant Professor in Ancient History

Posting Information

Posting Information 

Department
History – 315900

Posting Open Date
10/07/2022

Application Deadline
11/06/2022

Open […]

Warmest thanks for this message from Professor Sarah Bond, University of Iowa:

As many of you know, the Mapbox servers previously used for hosting the AWMC maptiles have been down for a number of months as we […]

5-1-2021 to 4-30-2022

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

Boosted not least by restored access to the Center itself in August after 16 months of remote working, this has been a year of […]

This new translation of Pliny’s Books about the universe and the world by Brian Turner (former Center Director) and Richard Talbert is now available in Europe from Cambridge University Press, and will be published […]

The Ancient World Mapping Center, in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, seeks Expressions of Interest from freelance and contract web developers interested […]

5-1-2020 to 4-30-2021

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

The year will be remembered for an exceptional mix of developments: on the one hand, impressive productivity achieved remotely in the […]

This is volume 1 of the first-ever Russian translation of Pliny’s Natural History.  There is a concise apparatus criticus for the Latin text, and concise notes accompany the translation.

The Center is aware with much regret that two resources it offers are no longer functioning as they should. Unfortunately, in both instances the problems which have arisen lie outside the Center’s control. The D […]

Daniela Dueck’s Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome is now available from Routledge.

The Ancient World Mapping Center, in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, seeks Expressions of Interest from freelance and contract web developers interested […]

5-1-19 to 4-30-20

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

This year remained an impressively active one throughout for the Center, above all because mapmaking could still continue remotely during […]

In the TIB series, #13 Bithynien und Hellespont by Klaus Belke was published in April. Its two substantial volumes are accompanied not only by a map at the regular scale for the series (1:800,000), but also by […]