Ancient World Mapping Center

12/20/2018

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. http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/free-maps/maps-for-texts/

11/14/2018

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. http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/free-maps/maps-for-texts/

10/10/2018

We are happy to announce that the preliminary program for the AWMC and Duke University's Digital Cartography Conference (November 2nd-3rd, 2018) is now posted on our website: http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/blog/2018/10/05/digital-cartography-new-maps-ancient-history-november-2-3-conference-program/
The conference is free and open to all. Please send an email to [email protected] to register by October 28, 2018.

A conference co-sponsored by the Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Duke University’s Departments of Classical Studies and of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

09/12/2018

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 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Co-organizers: Mary T. Boatwright, Maurizio Forte, Richard Talbert

Keynote speaker: Dr George Bevan, Associate Professor of Geography and Planning (cross-appointed to Art History/Conservation, Geological Science and Engineering, and Classics), Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

Duke’s Departments of Classical Studies and of Art and Art History and Visual Studies, in partnership with the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill, seek paper proposals for Digital Cartography, a conference on digital mapping and its multiple potential applications for a richer understanding of ancient history. We invite papers on individual or collaborative projects involving such approaches as mapping, photogrammetry, G.I.S. and remote sensing, virtual reality systems, the documentation of archaeological data, and communication both in the classroom and to a wider public. Preference will be given to proposals from graduate students and junior faculty.

Interested speakers (20 minutes maximum) should submit an abstract of no more than 500 words together with a brief C.V. to [email protected] by September 19, 2018 (please enter “DigCart Abstract” in the message subject line). Those whose papers are selected will be notified by October 1st.

06/21/2018

Excited to announce the newest entry in our Maps for Texts Series. Our map of Theophanes' journeys between Hermopolis and Antioch is available here: http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/free-maps/maps-for-texts/

11/10/2017

Very excited to announce our new interactive map of Hierokles' Synekdemos, available here: http://awmc.unc.edu/awmc/applications/hierokles/.

For details, see our Maps for Texts page: http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/free-maps/maps-for-texts/

06/13/2017

We're excited to announce a new series of free "Maps for Texts," providing readily available maps for ancient texts that otherwise lack them. The series launches with two maps of Ptolemy's Table of Important Cities, available here: http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/free-maps/maps-for-texts/

02/13/2017

Check out AWMC Director's Gabe Moss' review of the Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/gabriel-moss/review-pompeii-bibliography-and-mapping-project

The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project, directed by Eric Poehler, sets itself lofty goals. PBMP seeks to compile a comprehensive online bibliography and full-text archive of scholarly research on Pompeii, to construct a data-rich, interactive map of the ancient city, and to integrate both into...

12/19/2016

The CIA's Cartography Division just published some cool, declassified maps in celebration of their 75th anniversary:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ciagov/albums/with/72157674854391962

11/01/2016

http://gizmodo.com/this-wacky-world-map-just-won-japans-biggest-design-awa-1788437402?rev=1478007969185&utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

The centuries-old Mercator projection is a notoriously inaccurate world map. For one thing, Greenland isn’t the massive land mass as shown on the map. But a new map by artist and architect Hajime Narukawa offers what’s possibly the most proportional map we’ve ever seen.

09/23/2016

AWMC's founder and faculty supervisor Richard Talbert will be giving a talk in Vienna next week. A flyer is below. Among many other things, attendants will get a special preview of AWMC's brand-new map, showing Ptolemy's "Table of Important Cities."

09/16/2016

Very cool opportunity for those of you in the New York area: http://isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/cfp-digital-antiquity-research-workshop-2016-at-isaw
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

The Library and the Digital Programs team of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is pleased to announce another LAWDNY (Linked Ancient World Data Initiative New York) event: the Digital Antiquity Research Workshop 2016. The day-long event will be an opportunity for New York metro area s...