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Meeting at Pozzuoli (Italy) We are just returning from a very productive meeting in Pozzuoli with Dr. Costanza Gialanella, Dr. Alessandra Benini and Dr. Lucio Amato. We met at the office of the Soprintendenza per I Beni Archeologici di Napoli at Pozzuoli where we were guests of Dr. Costanza Gialanella. She made us feel extremely welcome and we are very grateful to her. Continue reading →

Geoarchaeologists find third Arginusae Island (Kane peninsula, Turkey)   Deep coring undertaken at the port site of Kane on the Kara-Dag peninsula on the western coast of Turkey, suggests that ancient Kane was originally situated on an island. Continue reading →

Machines in Roman ports' activities Recently, I have participated to an international conference about the Vitruvius’ machines (http://vitruve.hypotheses.org/), organised by the University of Caen (France) which specialises in the study of scientific texts, technics and Vitruvius. The researchers from Caen are also working on the 3D reconstruction of machines from antiquity. Through this conference, they proposed an interdisciplinary meeting to discuss recent research on Roman engineering. Continue reading →

    Around the end of 2014 I received an invitation to present a paper at a workshop organised by the Université d’Artois. This workshop, which takes the form of a series of meetings, deals with the perception of landscapes in ancient textual sources. Its aim is to investigate how did ancient authors face new, previously unfamiliar places and by what means did they describe them (i.e. transmit the information) for the general public who was unable to travel there. Continue reading →

    Recently I have had the pleasure of taking part in the ESRI UK Annual Conference, which was held in London on 19th May. This conference is a very important (and large – more than 2500 people!) gathering of people from a wide array of disciplines whose common element is making use of ArcGIS as a tool for managing and analysing spatial data. Continue reading →