Ancient World Mapping Center

Thanks to Jim West on Xtalk for a link to an excellent and comprehensive site from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:

Ancient World Mapping Center

This centre "exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies". Many useful, high resolution, well documented reproductions of maps from print resources in the AWMC Map Room including maps of the Expansion of the Empire in the Age of Augustus, Greece, the Aegean and Western Asia Minor and Roman Empire in AD 69. That's just a selection -- there are lots more. The main page has one of those annoying designs that only works properly in 1024x768 but the map room looks fine in 800x600.

The message forwarded by Jim was by Tom Elliott and reads as follows:

These maps were prepared to accompany the new book by Mary T.
Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola and Richard J.A. Talbert, The Romans
from Village to Empire: A History of Ancient Rome from Earliest Times to Constantine, Oxford University Press, 2004 (ISBN: 0-19-511875-8).
Publisher's information on the book is available.

Please visit our homepage or jump directly to the map room for
more information.

Please feel free to forward this message to other lists where it may be of interest.

I've added the site to the NT Gateway: Maps page.