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Atlases and Gazetteers

Ancient World Mapping Center
From the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Center aims to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies.
url: http://www.unc.edu/awmc/

Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world.
edited by Richard J.A. Talbert
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Printed copy available in Fisher Ref 912.38 4, the CD-Rom is an index and gazeteer to the book. It does not contain any maps.
This is not an Internet accessible database. The CD-Rom may be used in Fisher Library on any workstation by clicking on the "Additional Databases" folder.

ECAI: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
The project is a collaborative effort, based at the University of California Berkeley, combining global mapping, imagery, and texts.
url: http://www.ecai.org/

Getty Vocabulary Program
The Getty Vocabulary Program builds, maintains, and disseminates vocabularies. Produced by the Getty are the AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus), the ULAN (Union List of Artist Names), and the TGN (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names). These thesauri are particularly useful for finding variations of names, and contain references to sources where more information can be found.
url: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/

IAM: Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
An online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world. Includes maps, place names and variations, pronounciations and search facilities. This site is no longer being updated; the Ancient World Mapping Center has taken over its function.
url: http://iam.classics.unc.edu/

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Scanned images of maps from this library, part of the University of Texas, Austin.
url: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html/

TimeMap
The project researches methods for recording, indexing, analysing and delivering Humanities data with spatial and temporal components.
url: http://www.timemap.net/