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The AHRC have awarded three years of funding to continue and develop our work at Portus. The establishment of Portus, the maritime port of Imperial Rome, under Claudius and its enlargement Trajan, refocused Rome’s economic and social relationship with its Mediterranean provinces. It helped ensure the centrality and dominance of Roman power at the City of Rome for over 500 years down to the late antique period. Continue reading →

Members of the Portus Project are delighted by the extent and depth of coverage of the Project across a range of different media and in different countries. Furthermore we would like to emphasise that this is a collaborative venture between the University of Southampton, the British School at Rome, the University of Cambridge and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia Antica, and to acknowledge the very generous funding provided by the Arts and Humantities Research Council. Continue reading →

The Guardian (1 Oct. 2009) The Independent The Times (1 Oct. 2009) The Telegraph BBC BBC (Image Gallery) Daily Mail Metro The Guardian (2. Oct. 2009) The Guardian (Image gallery) Science Daily Blip.tv (Animation of Portus) Radio 4 interview (Interview starts at 26:36) The Times (2 Oct. 2009) Rai TV (minute 30.01) Il Sole 24 Ore Abitare a Roma AGR on line Welt online Peallin CNN. Continue reading →