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Antiquity À-la-carte Replacement Underway

January 16, 2024

As some have noticed, Antiquity À-la-carte is no longer online.  Built by former AWMC Director Ryan Horne, for over a decade this digital atlas allowed users to navigate ancient geographic data from the collections of AWMC and Pleiades , and … Read more

AWMC’s New Website

January 9, 2024

As we enter the spring semester, the Ancient World Mapping Center is excited to launch its redesigned and revitalized website. Thanks in large part to the hard work and technical expertise of Undergraduate Research Assistant Cameron Neale, the new site … Read more

Late Ottoman Turkey in Princeton’s Forgotten Maps: Part V

January 5, 2024

Princeton University Library in collaboration with Richard Talbert has released the fifth and final installment in their digital exhibit on the cartography of the late Ottoman Empire. The projects is available at this link.

2022-2023 Annual Report

November 2, 2023

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 Center for a new phase. In large measure that goal has … Read more

New Host for Maptiles

November 1, 2023

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 figured out a better … Read more