Web Directory

» A Cache of Vintage Ships
   An illustrated article by Andrew Slaymana in Archaeology on the ancient Roman ships unearthed at Pisa, Italy.
   http://www.archaeology.org/9907/etc/pisa.html

» A Study Of The Topography And Municipal History Of Praeneste
   E-text of 1908 book by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin on this member of the Latin League.
   http://gutenberg.org/etext/12770

» Ancient Carved 'Faces' Found
   From BBC, Italian scientist says he has found a carved stone head that is 200,000 years old.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3197402.stm

» Archeopollino
   Archaeology of the National Park of Pollino in Calabria, Italy. Descriptions and photo galleries of Greek, Roman, Enotrian, Byzantine and Longobards sites.
   http://www.archeopollino.it/index_english.htm

» Campanaio, Sicily: A Geophysical Survey 1995
   A geophysical evaluation in southern Sicily by Bournemouth University to identify industrial activity in the Roman rural settlement.
   http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/sicily/

» Capitolium
   Official website of the archaeological site of the Imperial Forums, Rome. Includes maps, a virtual tour, and information on life in ancient Rome.
   http://www.capitolium.org/

» Capo Alfiere
   Capo Alfiere is the name of a Neolithic site located on a small headland on the eastern coast of Calabria.
   http://www.utexas.edu/research/ica/publications/online_resources/capo_alfiere/CAweb.html

» Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria
   1848 volume by George Dennis. The complete work online. 1165 pages, engravings, maps, and plans.
   http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/_Periods/Roman/Archaic/Etruscan/_Texts/DENETR*/

» DNA reveals how the Italian Iceman went down fighting
   From the Independent, Iceman bore traces of the blood of four other men on his weapons and clothes, three of whom he had killed or wounded.
   http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article100039.ece

» Death of the Iceman
   Provides documentary about Oetzi, the Iceman. Includes transcripts of BBC documentery.
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/iceman.shtml

» Horace's Farmhouse Found Beneath Horace's villa Site
   Attempt to answer whether the Roman poet and the satirist Horace live in a modest farmhouse, as he tells us in his writings, or in a 20,000-square-foot villa, which most archaeologists have attributed to him.
   http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/spr02/steinmetz.html

» Horace's Villa Project
   Prof. Bernard Frischer explains his excavations of the villa near Licenza thought to be that of the Roman poet Horace. Reports on each season's work, drawings and a virtual tour.
   http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/horaces-villa/

» Iceman's Final Meal
   From the BBC, the last two meals eaten by the 5,300-year-old iceman, dubbed Oetzi, have been revealed by scientists.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2262615.stm

» Model of Rome
   Paul Bigot's zoomable scale model of ancient Rome, at the University of Caen in France, with descriptions of monuments.
   http://www.unicaen.fr/rome/?langue=anglais&action=&idMonu=&lien=&page=2&id=&titre=

» Ostia - The Harbour of Ancient Rome
   Provides detailed information for professional archaeologists and historians, for students of Roman archaeology and history, and for interested lay-people. Maintained by the Internet Group Ostia (IGO).
   http://www.ostia-antica.org/

» Ostia Antica
   The harbor of the ancient Rome. Photos, story and links.
   http://www.ostia-ostie.net/indexEN.html

» Pompei discovery for Swedish archeologists
   From The Local, Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruptio
   http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1291&date=20050417

» Pompeii Forum Project
   An archaeologically based research project that documents the design and decoration of the forum of Pompeii and addresses issues of urban history and design.
   http://pompeii.virginia.edu/

» Pompeii Interactive
   A CD-ROM exploring Pompeii with photographs, virtual reality, maps, and information. Online preview includes the history of the discovery of Pompeii, with biographies of the archaeologists involved.
   http://www.pompeii.co.uk/

» Roman Water-Mills on the Janiculum Hill, Rome
   Andrew Wilson of Oxford University describes the excavation in 1998 of several mill-wheels installed in two mill-races parallel to the main channel of the Aqua Traiana.
   http://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp0057/JaniculumMills.html

» Roman gold mine of Bessa
   Alberto Vaudagna's description of the archaeology, history and geology of this area in Piedmont, with images and bibliography. Includes a 2nd century BCE gold mine and Protohistoric rock art.
   http://spazioinwind.libero.it/bessapark/english.htm

» Sicilian-Scandinavian Archaeological Project
   An international collaborative project investigates Monte Polizzo, an early Iron Age settlement in the NW of Sicily. Participants, landscape survey, fieldwork, finds and archaeobotony.
   http://dig.anthro.niu.edu/sicily/sic_home.htm

» Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei
   Official site of the excavations of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Boscoreale, Oplontis and Stabia (in English and Italian).
   http://www.pompeiisites.org/

» The Arch of Constantine
   Illustrated description of the arch which was erected to celebrate Constantine I's victory at the Milvian Bridge in 312 CE. Includes bibliography and over 60 photographs.
   http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/299_Arch_of_Constantine.html

» The Capitoline Hill
   Detailed description of the history and monuments of the Capitoline Hill in antiquity, from the Capitoline Museums. Includes maps and photographs.
   http://www.museicapitolini.org/en/museo/sezioni.asp?l1=5&l2=1

» The Roman Villa of Piazza Armerina, Sicily
   An illustrated room-by-room description by René Seindal of the villa with the richest collection of late Roman mosaics. Includes bibliography, plan and more than 200 photographs.
   http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/456_Villa_Romana_del_Casale.html

» The Scandinavian-Sicilian Expedition
   International excavations at a 700 to 400 BCE hillfort.
   http://www.hf.uio.no/iakk/sicilia/

» The Troina Project
   The University of Cambridge is investigating the archaeological history of the Troina region in Sicily. The team, regional survey and analysis, excavations at Casa Sollima - a prehistoric house.
   http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/TROINA/

» Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
   Pictures and background material about Oetzi, the iceman, from the museum where he is exhibited.
   http://www.archaeologiemuseum.it/