But don’t feel bad if all you want to do is click around and explore the ancient world. a large empire was created in just a little over 10 years by Cyrus II the Great. And there are widgets and APIs as well to make adding data easy. Here’s a Pelagios heat map showing the density of annotations at each place. The individual files are large (1300x1200px, 50-100KB each, JPG. Click on each orange square to see each area.
This map is divided into smaller areas to facilitate easier viewing over the internet. And there are lots of ways you can explore the map, developed by people all over the world. The map above displays the ancient Greek cities, places of interest, and centers of influence within and without the borders of the modern country. Here are the data sets that the project pulled from. Pelagios is just the first step in a longer journey which will require many such initiatives, but we welcome anyone who shares our vision to join us in realising it.Īs part of their open data philosophy, they’ve made available all the information behind the giant map. Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific. Historical Atlas of the Classical World 500BC AD600. We are committed to open access and a pragmatic lightweight approach that encourages and enables others to join us in putting the Ancient World online. Historical Atlas of the Ancient World 4,000.000 500BC. Each project represents a different perspective on Antiquity, whether map, text or archaeological record, but as a group we believe passionately that the combination of all of our contributions is enormously more valuable than the sum of its parts.
#MAP OF ANCIENT CITIES SERIES#
This series evokes Crete and Mycenae, colonization and Greek cities, the wars between Persia and the Athenian empire, Sparta and the Peloponnesian war, Alexanders conquests and the Hellenistic kingdoms. This is a map of just a few of the larger and still visible man-made ancient sites in North America for each site shown there are hundreds. Ancient Greece played a major role in the development of Western civilization and laid down the foundations of democracy. Today’s modern archaeology and residents/stewards are working together, revealing new connections up and down our continent. Pelagios are a collective of projects connected by a shared vision of a world – most eloquently described in Tom Elliott’s article ‘ Digital Geography and Classics’ – in which the geography of the past is every bit as interconnected, interactive and interesting as the present. Our land has a vibrant and ancient history. The map is the result of the PELAGIOS (Pelagios: Enable Linked Ancient Geodata in Open Systems) Project. Sitting in your college classics lecture, did you ever wonder where, exactly, the ancient cities of Luna or Velathri were? Now, you can zoom around this huge, detailed map of the ancient world labeled with cities from all sorts of archaeological records, classical text references and European imagery.
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