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Portus Limen Seminar Series Tuesday 8th March 2016, 16.00h Building 65b (building next to Highfield Road), Room1005 (Maritime Lab) Rome’s Mediterranean Ports Project, hosted by the Archaeology Department, is delighted to announce two visiting speakers on the subject of Roman Maritime Law at the revised date of 8th March 2016 Dr. Paul J. du Plessis, Edinburgh Law School Roman maritime law: navigating mare nostrum. Continue reading →

The University of Southampton Maritime Archaeology department are running a free four week online course (MOOC) on shipwrecks, starting 1/2/2016. Details on the course and how to register can be found at MOOC blog site. Continue reading →

Portus Limen in the Eagle Conference 2016 (La Sapienza, Rome) By Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz   The poster entitled: Bridging the gap: linking commercial epigraphy and Roman law shows the work of two databases linked and developed in the core of the Portus Limen project. Digital research has moved well beyond the stage of pilot projects; it is a mature discipline bringing contributions to its own field and others, most notably Classical epigraphy, Ancient history and archaeology. Continue reading →

The famous journal National Geographic has published an article about the results of the gaeoarchaeological fieldwork undertook at Kane in Turkey. This fieldwork have been realized thanks to a partnership between the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Istanbul and the ERC Roman’s Mediterranean Port Project. Continue reading →

The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News has published an article about the results of the gaeoarchaeological fieldwork undertook at Kane in Turkey. This fieldwork have been realized thanks to a partnership between the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Istanbul and the Roman's Mediterranean Port Project. Continue reading →

Un port sota la plaça Catalunya's leading daily newspaper La Vanguardia has published today an article about the current fieldwork of the Rome’s Mediterranean Ports team in Tarragona (Spain). This article entitled “Un port sota la plaça” (A port under the square) explains to the readers the aims and the methodology used by our team in an urban context. Continue reading →

2015 Annual meeting of the American School of Oriental Research Atlanta (GA, USA), November 18th-21st 2015 The 2015 ASOR Annual Meeting will be held in Atlanta, GA, from November 18th to 21st at The InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta hotel. The Annual Meeting brings together ASOR's vibrant academic community to present their current findings and discuss their research. Continue reading →

Geophysical survey at Tarragona, and the constraints of modern urban areas Over the past few months of field survey, work has swung around to a series of projects lined to Roman ports in the Mediterranean. In June and July I headed back for a season of excavations at Portus, and in August and September geophysical survey at the site of Ephesus in Turkey (more on this in a future post). Continue reading →

Portus Limen Seminar Series 10th november 2015 5:00 pm University of Southampton, Computer Lab, room 3043, building 65a, Avenue Campus   The port-city of Delos and its commercial cityscape By Dr. Mantha Zarmakoupi (University of Birmingham)   This paper focuses on the port facilities and commercial infrastructures of Delos to address the ties between economic change and urban growth. Continue reading →