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Professor Simon Keay has been appointed a member of the Comitato Scientifico of the Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica by the MiBACT for five years from 2017.
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Lost and Found: Places, Objects and People
Friday 27 October 2017, British School at Rome.
Lost and Found will bring together some of the archaeologists, classicists and experts in other fields who are leading the fight to preserve the traces of our past. From recovering stolen artefacts, to mapping endangered archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa, this event will demonstrate how international researchers are combating global human problems.
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New online tours of Portus launched
We are pleased to launch a series of online tours produced by Peter Wheeler. Peter, with input from the rest of the Portus Project team, has created tours for the Claudian, Trajanic, and Severan periods, and for the Fifth to Seventh Centuries. There is also a tour providing a virtual visit to the archaeological site as it is today. Finally there is an interactive timeline for the site.
The tours are intended only as a first step and we have many additions and modifications planned.
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New web page about the Portus Project
New web page about the Portus Project was recently released at BSR website.
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Portus Field School
We now have the 2015 dates for the Portus Field School: 21st June to 10th July. Those interested should see the Application Process tab for details of how to apply.
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Visit to Portus by the Minister of Culture
The ongoing Portus Project excavations being undertaken under the aegis of the second season of the Portus Field School were the object of a recent visit by the Italian Minister of Culture last week.
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Registration open for Archaeology of Portus course: coming soon early 2015
You can now register to join the second version of the Archaeology of Course: exploring the lost harbour of ancient Rome course run by the University of Southampton and FutureLearn. You can register via this link.
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Aerial Photogrammetry at Portus
In the previous post by Stephen Kay on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Portus he discussed the work that has been completed on site in terms of capturing aerial photography. Aerial photography plays a significant part within the understanding of any archaeological site and this is especially true at Portus.
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New city wall discovered at Ostia
Researchers from the universities of Southampton and Cambridge have discovered a new section of the boundary wall of the ancient Roman port of Ostia, proving the city was much larger than previously estimated. The team, led by Professor Simon Keay (Southampton) and Professor Martin Millet (Cambridge), has been conducting a survey of an area of land lying between Ostia and Portus.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Portus
Since the start of excavations by the Portus Project in 2007, aerial photography has played an important role in the recording, analysis and presentation of the research. The ability for the archaeologist to have a bird’s-eye view of an excavation gives the opportunity to see the plan of structures, their relationships with each and alignments which are not visible at ground level.
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