Free Course on History of Portus

The short course I did through Southampton University is still available through FutureLearn or at: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/portus

Visualising Portus

Here are a couple of videos on the visualisation project

A couple of years back I had the opportunity to do a short course run by the University of Southampton … More

The Torlonia relief was found in 1863 or 1864 near the so-called Imperial Palace, between the harbours of Claudius and … More

Portus continued to be expand. In the late second century, there was both an expansion of existing buildings and the … More

Amongst the other developments during the reign of Trajan was the building of the Therma Della Laterna, a bath complex … More

At Portus a number of new projects were undertaken during Trajans port redevelopment. Most notable is the building of the … More

The continued expansion of trade across the Empire meant that within only a few decades of the completion of the … More

In the reign of Claudius, a new port was constructed 3 km to the north of the Tiber estuary and … More

When people talk about the Port of the city of Rome, they are usually thinking of the River port of … More