In the wake of the discovery of the archive of Ur-Utu, chief dirge singer of the temple of Annunītum in Sippar-Amnānum, the department of Assyriology has taken an interest in ...read more
Born from the Arnamagnæan Summer School in Manuscript Studies, 6 members of the Master Class of 2010 decided to work together on a project they entitled 'Personent Hodie Text Edition ...read more
Byzantine book epigrams do not currently receive the attention from the scholarly world that they certainly deserve. This is due to several reasons. The corpus of epigrams presents itself currently ...read more
Between 2010 and 2012, Ghent University and Utrecht University investigated the largest cistern in Thorikos and its immediate surroundings: Cistern No. 1. Whereas most cisterns in the Lavriotiki had been ...read more
MP3 is an ongoing 'open' relational database that operates as the basic research tool ('laboratory') for those members of the UGent Mamluk team that use prosopographical, sociographical and discourse-oriented methodologies; ...read more
For several years the team directed by Prof Dr Frank Vermeulen operating in the western Mediterranean area focused on the intensive non-destructive study of a number of abandoned Roman towns ...read more
Thorikos occupies the east coast of the Lavrion area in Attica, Greece. The ancient town comprised a double-bay harbour at Agios Nikolaos, the Adami plain with the lower Potami valley, ...read more
During the recent two decades archaeological research on ancient urbanism has left the traditional path of excavations, documentation of earlier field activities, and topographical analysis of surface relics and indications ...read more
The Roman colony of Mariana was founded at the beginning of the first century BC, by Marius. The importance of the site was recognized by 19th century local historians and ...read more
The main area of research of the Roman Mediterranean Archaeology unit (dir. Prof. Frank Vermeulen), namely central Adriatic Italy, is central to this overarching research on the impact on the ...read more