Cool Sites of the Month
Cool Sites of the Month
The Walker Collection: University of Melbourne Digital Map Collection
Melbourne University is digitising a collection of early modern maps of the OE and E Med (dating roughly between the early 16th and mid 18th centuries).
The Walker Collection comprises 135 original historic maps, printed between 1511 and 1774 and covering Asia Minor and surrounding areas, including the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Balkans.
Out of the 135 maps they have so far digitised 28, which represent the biggest maps (over A3 in size). These have been put onto the web with a reader that will allow users to zoom in on particular areas at 100% (life size).
This popular website provides access to:
- A World Atlas of Archaeology listing excavations, researchers, and information resources for over 150 countries
- A Directory of Graduate Schools listing current faculty and research areas, organized by location and specialty
- Dig 2000, a guide to current and upcoming excavations
- Job listings for field and lab assistants
- Carefully selected Net links covering over 70 topics
- Over 130 articles
English Heritage website, giving updates of current excavation work at Whitby Headland site. The site is an Anglo-Saxon monastery, but recent evidence and interpretation has suggested the cemetery may be late Roman instead of Anglo-Saxon. Interpretations updated regularly.
