Directory of Towns and Cities Resources

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Sites focusing on the urban history of the Roman Empire.

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• City of the Dead: Calleva Atrebatum

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/archaeology/city_dead_01.shtml
  Excavations in Hampshire revealed the remains of a once-thriving Roman town, Calleva Atrebatum. But what led to its abandonment? Michael Fulford turns detective.

• Lepcis Magna - The Roman Empire in Africa

  http://www.alnpete.co.uk/lepcis/
  Dr Hafed Walda reports on the latest excavations of this amazingly preserved Roman city on the North African coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

• Museum of St Albans and Verulamium Museum

  http://stalbansmuseums.org.uk/
  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.

• Ostia: Harbour of Ancient Rome

  http://www.ostia-antica.org/
  Texts, plans, bibliography, links, and other resources for professional and student archaeologists and historians studying Ostia.

• Pompeii Interactive

  http://www.pompeii.co.uk/
  A CD-ROM written by an examiner with hundreds of photos and detailed text on all aspects of ancient Pompeii. Preview online.

• S.P.Q.R. Blues

  http://www.klio.net/domus/
  Logomancy's virtual reconstruction of ancient Herculaneum and stories about ordinary folks based on archaeology.

• Silchester Roman Town

  http://www.reading.ac.uk/silchester/
  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.

• The Corinth Computer Project

  http://corinth.sas.upenn.edu/
  A computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman era colony of Corinth, by the University of Pennsylvania.

• Tour of Caistor Roman Town

  http://www.uea.ac.uk/~jwmp/CaistorRomanTown/crtp1.html
  Sue White provides a virtual tour of this Roman town in what is now Norfolk, England, complete with plans, reconstruction drawings and bibliography.

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