Towns and Cities Rome Ancient By Time Period

Towns and Cities Rome Ancient By Time Period

Towns and Cities

Sites focusing on the urban history of the Roman Empire.

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- A CD-ROM written by an examiner with hundreds of photos and detailed text on all aspects of ancient Pompeii. Preview online.
- Dr Hafed Walda reports on the latest excavations of this amazingly preserved Roman city on the North African coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- A book proposal by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University, with selected chapters on-line.
- The Roman city at the present St. Albans was the third largest in Roman Britain. An introduction with historical outline, reconstruction drawing, photographs and links.
- Texts, plans, bibliography, links, and other resources for professional and student archaeologists and historians studying Ostia.
- Sue White provides a virtual tour of this Roman town in what is now Norfolk, England, complete with plans, reconstruction drawings and bibliography.
- Exeter Council provides a map and description of the form and growth of the Roman city known as Isca Dumnoniorum.
- An introduction to the structure and layout of Roman towns, with sample plans by "Victius Maximus".
- An appendix to Guy de la Bédoyère, Roman Towns in Britain (2003), giving references in classical authors and inscriptions that provide clues to the names, status or nature of towns in Roman Britain.
- Project sponsored by the British School at Rome, directed by Simon Keay and Martin Millett. Outline hosted by the British School.
- An overlay of modern streets on the core of the walled Roman town at Narbonne, with description.
- A computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman era colony of Corinth, by the University of Pennsylvania.
- Video produced and directed by Sean Caveille, shown on the Archaeology Channel.
- Logomancy's virtual reconstruction of ancient Herculaneum and stories about ordinary folks based on archaeology.
- links to pictures, animation, maps and graphics, offers the story of how Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii.
- The University of Reading describes the archaeology of the Romano-British town called Calleva Atrebatum, the Victorian excavations and the activities of the Field School.
- The West Yorkshire Archaeology Service provides an illustrated description of life in a provincial Roman town, with bibliography.
- Excavations in Hampshire revealed the remains of a once-thriving Roman town, Calleva Atrebatum. But what led to its abandonment? Michael Fulford turns detective.

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