The Ancient Chariots of Libya
I had long wanted to follow in the tracks of the chariots on a journey to the ends of the ancient Roman world to discover something of modern-day Libya.
Security and Water on Egypt's Desert Roads: New Light on the Prefect Iulius Ursus and Praesidia-building under Vespasian
A chance visit to Berenike gave the key to a deeper understanding of the origins and history of the road that leads there from Coptos…
Maps in the Service of the State: Roman Cartography to the End of the Augustan Era
It is not only by chance, therefore, that it is in three particular applications of mapping-road organization, land survey for centuriation, and town planning-that Roman maps, or descendants of them, have survived.
Railways in the Greek and Roman world
Because the Greeks and Romans, for all their inventiveness in other directions, are not widely acknowledged as builders of railways, the title of this paper may raise a few eyebrows.
The growth of Greek cities in the first millennium BC
In this paper I trace the growth of the largest Greek cities from perhaps 1,000- 2,000 people at the beginning of the first millennium BC to 400,000-500,000 at the millennium’s end.