Towns and Cities

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• Arts: Architecture: History: Periods and Styles: Classical: Roman  (22)
• Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Urban History  (11)

Athena Review: Plan of the Roman Town at Narbonne - - An overlay of modern streets on the core of the walled Roman town at Narbonne, with description.

Calleva: The Roman Town of Silchester - - Video produced and directed by Sean Caveille, shown on the Archaeology Channel.

City of the Dead: Calleva Atrebatum - - Excavations in Hampshire revealed the remains of a once-thriving Roman town, Calleva Atrebatum. But what led to its abandonment? Michael Fulford turns detective.

The Corinth Computer Project - - A computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman era colony of Corinth, by the University of Pennsylvania.

Exeter as a Roman Town - - Exeter Council provides a map and description of the form and growth of the Roman city known as Isca Dumnoniorum.

Greek and Roman Cities of Western Turkey - - A book proposal by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University, with selected chapters on-line.

Lepcis Magna - The Roman Empire in Africa - - Dr Hafed Walda reports on the latest excavations of this amazingly preserved Roman city on the North African coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Ostia: Harbour of Ancient Rome - - Texts, plans, bibliography, links, and other resources for professional and student archaeologists and historians studying Ostia.

The Pompei Disaster - - links to pictures, animation, maps and graphics, offers the story of how Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii.

Pompeii Interactive - - A CD-ROM written by an examiner with hundreds of photos and detailed text on all aspects of ancient Pompeii. Preview online.

Roman Towns in Britain: Written Evidence for towns - - 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.

Roman Towns in the Tiber Valley - - Project sponsored by the British School at Rome, directed by Simon Keay and Martin Millett. Outline hosted by the British School.

Roman Towns in the Tiber Valley - - University of Southampton hosts this study by Simon Keay and Martin Millett, which forms part of the broader Tiber Valley Project of the British School at Rome.

The Roman Wall of Lugo - - The City Council of Lugo, Spain, describes the remarkably complete and well-preserved Roman town wall now a World Heritage Site. Includes history, illustrations and bibliography. [English, French, Galician, Spanish].

Romans in Britain: Roman Towns - - An introduction to the structure and layout of Roman towns, with sample plans by "Victius Maximus".

Silchester Town Life Project - - 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.

S.P.Q.R. Blues - - Logomancy's virtual reconstruction of ancient Herculaneum and stories about ordinary folks based on archaeology.

Tour of Caistor Roman Town - - Sue White provides a virtual tour of this Roman town in what is now Norfolk, England, complete with plans, reconstruction drawings and bibliography.

Verulamium - - 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.