Human interest

Special section about the Roman cemetery of Portus....

In 1998, an incredible archaeological heritage was discovered by accident near the Pisa San Rossore railway station....

Roman law is the finest monument that Rome bequeathed to Western Europe....

.....rivers were the arteries of the Roman Empire...........

Let deserving slaves sit down so that they may stand up free...........

Very soon after her construction Italica developed into a prosperous city with a harbour for the import and export of all kinds of goods including minerals and…..marble....

When we speak of ports, in our case Roman ports, we usually refer to temporary anchorages or berths where...........

To create clearly defined harbours, navigators were guided by fires on hilltops. ..........

 In the empire there was a large port network to import and distribute marble to Rome. .......

In addition, there were of course also ports built as military harbours and served as home to .......

A Comment on Rome’s Supply Chain during the Empire .......

Originally a taberna was a one-room shop for the sale of goods or for services. .....

In general, we have to translate the term navicularius (singular of navicularii) to "shipowner" ......

How to create your own Roman bathhouse....

Although we do know a lot about the Romans generally speaking .....

Endangered marble cladding: Berlin archaeologists have been working in Ostia for ten years.....

The corresponding expressions of Christmas often go much further back and seem to be derived from the religions and traditions that.......

In many articles we showed how important grain was for Rome.

History, and, of course, archaeology, enjoys an increasing interest nowadays.

Tin mining started in Cornwall around 2000 B.C. In Roman times ....

In his Res Rustica, Columella writes: Olea prima omnium arborum est ..........

Our knowledge of the historical maritime trade in the Mediterranean Sea is based on poetry, myths, fables ..........

Some years ago Jan Theo Bakker, archaeological adviser of Roman Ports, and I ..........

Recently I discovered a video about an underwater project in 2009 for the coast of the island of Ventotene, Italy.

In 146 B.C., the Roman legions sacked Carthage and took over its wheat fields.....

The Phoenician roots of the Sardinian ports......

Short impression of my first visit to Ostia....

What kind of cargo did the ships carry that entered a Roman port?

The story about an almost forgotten small Roman port.

Villa della Palombara, house of Pliny the Younger?

Campi Flegrei (fiery fields) is actually part of a caldera......

In ancient times there was hardly shipping during the winter........

The harbour of Civitavecchia, situated on the remains of the old Roman harbour of Centumcellae, was built .....

Todays city of Civitavecchia has been built originally at the beginning of the second century AD by the emperor Trajan ......

In1984, visiting for the first time Civitavecchia......

Ostia and Pompeii are without question the two best preserved towns from Roman times

Isola Sacra, the Holy or Sacred Island, is an artificial island formed by the sea, the river Tiber and,...  

Pope Pio II in his Commentarii (1614) wrote: “Emperor Claudius built a harbour protected right and left by jetties...  

The double arch of the coastline of the Campagna Romana is made up of littorial barriers..... 

One can say few things for certain about the origins of Ostia. 

Report and movie about Ostia and the man who conserved the frescoes for 50 years