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New excavation season has started

The fourth season of excavation at Portus takes place between late March and early May 2011. As in previous years these have been undertaken by the University of Southampton, in conjunction with the British School at Rome and the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The area chosen for excavation lies to the south of areas excavated in previous years, but still within the confines of the Palazzo Imperiale. Continue reading →

Portus Project Achieves Next Stage in Funding from the AHRC

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 →

New discovery at Portus, the ancient port of Rome, features in the Daily Telegraph

Archaeologists from the University of Southampton, University of Cambridge and the British School at Rome, have discovered one of the largest canals every built by the Romans. They believe it linked Portus with the nearby Roman river port of Ostia. Read the Daily Telegraph article (11 July, 2010) The image shows an aerial view from Portus across the Fossa Traiana towards the Isola Sacra with Ostia in the far distance, an area that was crossed by the newly discovered canal. Continue reading →

Portus featured on television

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 →

CGI research at Portus

The AHRC Portus Project is partly focussed on the application and evaluation of digital technologies, and in particular the production of computer graphic models. Specifically we implement Computer Graphic Imagery following geophysical assessment, during the excavation, in the analysis of excavated and surveyed archaeology, and in the representation and debate of interpretations. Continue reading →

Portus in the News

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