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
Archaeological survey to study the diachronological organization of ritual and funerary monuments. The BOF research project 2003-2004, a cooperation between Ghent University and Gorno-Altaisk State University and funded by the ...read more
Thousands of Early Iron Age burial mounds in Altay are located in the peripheral permafrost zone, causing an exceptional archaeological preservation. The project “Preservation of the Frozen Tombs of the ...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
During the Roman period, the northern parts of the Belgian provinces of East- and West-Flanders together with the Dutch province of Zeeland formed the northern parts of the so called ...read more
In 2000, a multi-disciplinary team under the direction of Prof. Frank Vermeulen, started a very intensive survey of an Adriatic valley. Denominated 'Potenza Valley Survey' (PVS), this research project aims ...read more
The archaeological and historical identification of the site as the emplacement of the Roman town of Ammaia dates from the mid 1930s. Systematic archaeological digs started only in 1994 and ...read more