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Mineral Exploration and Fort Placement in Roman Britain

Mineral Exploration and Fort Placement in Roman Britain By Richard Dibon-Smith Published Online (1985-1990) Introduction: “Britain yields gold, silver, and other metals, to make it worth conquering.”...

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Interactive map of the Roman Empire now online

Imagine you’re in Rome, it’s 205 CE, and you’ve got to figure out the quickest way to transport wheat to Virunum, in what’s now Austria. Your transportation choices are limited: ox cart, mule, ship or...

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From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel and...

From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel and Cartography Lecture by Scott Johnson Given at the Library of Congress, on June 9, 2011 Overview: A survey of Greek and...

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The Greco-Roman Conception of the North from Pytheas to Tacitus

The Greco-Roman Conception of the North from Pytheas to Tacitus By R. Chevallier Arctic, Vol.37:4 (1984) Introduction: In this attempt to outline the main phases in the unveiling of the north in terms...

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Maps in the Service of the State: Roman Cartography to the End of the...

Maps in the Service of the State: Roman Cartography to the End of the Augustan Era By O. A. W. Dilke The History of Cartography, Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Europe and...

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The Old and the Restless: The Egyptians and the Scythians in Herodotus’...

The Old and the Restless: The Egyptians and the Scythians in Herodotus’ Histories Hagan, Robert J. Bard College: Senior Projects Spring (2011). Paper 10 Abstract Although Herodotus is sometimes known...

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An interactive secondary education history class project using cartographic...

An interactive secondary education history class project using cartographic heritage interfaces: The Ancient Olympia landscape key-study By Mary Papachristou and Maria Pazarli e-Perimetron, Vol. 6,...

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Forests and Warfare in World History

Forests and Warfare in World History By J.R. McNeill Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History - Paper given at Duke University, 2002 Introduction: For better and for...

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The Circumnavigation of Africa

The Circumnavigation of Africa By Ciaran Branigan Classics Ireland, Vol.1 (1994) Introduction: It is commonly believed that the first circumnavigation of Africa was made by the Portuguese under Vasco...

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From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome...

From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth century AD Carmela Maria Ranieri Master of Arts, Classics, Durham University (2008) Abstract In light...

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Around the Roman world in 180 days

Around the Roman world in 180 days By Beryl Mary Screen PhD Dissertation, University of South Africa, 2005 Abstract: The dissertation is intended to show whether it is possible for a Roman traveller to...

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The shape of the Roman world

The shape of the Roman world Walter Scheidel (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, April (2013) Abstract Ancient societies were shaped by logistical constraints that are...

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Explaining the maritime freight charges in Diocletian’s Price Edict

Explaining the maritime freight charges in Diocletian’s Price Edict Walter Scheidel (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, April (2013) Abstract In an article published in...

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Some Notes about an Early African Pool of Cultures from which Emerged the...

Some Notes about an Early African Pool of Cultures from which Emerged the Egyptian Civilisation Alain Anselin (Université des Antilles-Guyane) Egypt in its African Context: Proceedings of the...

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The so-called Galatae, Celts, and Gauls in the Early Hellenistic Balkans and...

The so-called Galatae, Celts, and Gauls in the Early Hellenistic Balkans and the Attack on Delphi in 280–279 BC Duncan R. J. Campbell (School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of...

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The Legion Re-Envisioned Analysis of the Roman Military: 4th Century AD

The Legion Re-Envisioned Analysis of the Roman Military: 4th Century AD Geofre Schoradt Williams College Williamstown: Arts with Honors in History, Massachusetts April (2006)  Abstract The Roman Empire...

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Maps in the Service of the State: Roman Cartography to the End of the...

Maps in the Service of the State: Roman Cartography to the End of the Augustan Era By O. A. W. Dilke The History of Cartography, Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Europe and...

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The Old and the Restless: The Egyptians and the Scythians in Herodotus'...

On a historiographical level, if we look at all the ethnographic material in the Histories, it appears that Herodotus wishes the reader to view the world and its peoples in a sort of grid. Scythia and...

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Forests and Warfare in World History

Forests and Warfare in World History By J.R. McNeill Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History – given at the Forest History Society meeting Durham, NC (2002)...

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The Circumnavigation of Africa

The Circumnavigation of Africa By Ciaran Branigan Classics Ireland, Vol.1 (1994) Introduction: It is commonly believed that the first circumnavigation of Africa was made by the Portuguese under Vasco...

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