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» Athena Review: Plan of the Roman Town at Narbonne - An overlay of modern streets on the core of the walled Roman town at Narbonne, with description.
» BBC History: City of the Dead: the Roman Town of Calleva Atrebatum - Excavations in Hampshire revealed the remains of a once-thriving Roman town, Calleva Atrebatum. But what led to its abandonment? Michael Fulford turns detective.
» Calleva: The Roman Town of Silchester - Video produced and directed by Sean Caveille, shown on the Archaeology Channel.
» Exeter as a Roman Town - Exeter Council provides a map and description of the form and growth of the Roman city known as Isca Dumnoniorum.
» Greek and Roman Cities of Western Turkey - A book proposal by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University, with selected chapters on-line.
» Lepcis Magna - The Roman Empire in Africa - Dr Hafed Walda reports on the latest excavations of this amazingly preserved Roman city on the North African coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
» Ostia: Harbour of Ancient Rome - Texts, plans, bibliography, links, and other resources for professional and student archaeologists and historians studying Ostia.
» Pompeii Interactive - A CD-ROM written by an examiner with hundreds of photos and detailed text on all aspects of ancient Pompeii. Preview online.
» Roman Towns in West Yorkshire - The West Yorkshire Archaeology Service provides an illustrated description of life in a provincial Roman town, with bibliography.
» Roman Towns Project - Project sponsored by the British School at Rome, directed by Simon Keay and Martin Millett.
» Roman Towns in Britain - The Introduction and first chapterof this book by Guy de la Bédoyère.
» Roman Towns in the Tiber Valley - 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.
» Romans in Britain: Roman Towns - An introduction to the structure and layout of Roman towns, with sample plans by "Victius Maximus".
» S.P.Q.R. Blues - Logomancy's virtual reconstruction of ancient Herculaneum and stories about ordinary folks based on archaeology.
» Silchester Town Life Project - The University of Reading describes the archaeology of the Romano-British town called Calleva Atrebatum, the Victorian excavations and the activities of the Field School.
» The Corinth Computer Project - A computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman era colony of Corinth, by the University of Pennsylvania.
» The Pompei Disaster - links to pictures, animation, maps and graphics, offers the story of how Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii.
» Tour of Caistor Roman Town - Sue White provides a virtual tour of this Roman town in what is now Norfolk, England, complete with plans, reconstruction drawings and bibliography.
» Verulamium - 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.