Ancient Civilizations: Ancient: Rome: Towns and Cities

A CD-ROM written by an examiner with hundreds of photos and detailed text on all aspects of ancient Pompeii. Preview online.

Texts, plans, bibliography, links, and other resources for professional and student archaeologists and historians studying Ostia.

Logomancy's virtual reconstruction of ancient Herculaneum and stories about ordinary folks based on archaeology.

links to pictures, animation, maps and graphics, offers the story of how Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii.

University of Southampton hosts this study by Simon Keay and Martin Millett, which forms part of the broader Tiber Valley Project of the British School at Rome.

Excavations in Hampshire revealed the remains of a once-thriving Roman town, Calleva Atrebatum. But what led to its abandonment? Michael Fulford turns detective.

An introduction to the structure and layout of Roman towns, with sample plans by "Victius Maximus".

Video produced and directed by Sean Caveille, shown on the Archaeology Channel.

Exeter Council provides a map and description of the form and growth of the Roman city known as Isca Dumnoniorum.

The West Yorkshire Archaeology Service provides an illustrated description of life in a provincial Roman town, with bibliography.

Sue White provides a virtual tour of this Roman town in what is now Norfolk, England, complete with plans, reconstruction drawings and bibliography.

Dr Hafed Walda reports on the latest excavations of this amazingly preserved Roman city on the North African coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

A computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman era colony of Corinth, by the University of Pennsylvania.

An overlay of modern streets on the core of the walled Roman town at Narbonne, with description.

A book proposal by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University, with selected chapters on-line.

The Roman city at the present St. Albans was the third largest in Roman Britain. An introduction with historical outline, reconstruction drawing, photographs and links.