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 In the municipality of Gruissan, the island of Saint Martin is located a few tens of kilometres from Narbonne........

We know the city of Alexandria in Egypt was built by Alexander the Great, but he did not build the first port city at that location......

Herodotus has a tale regarding the founding of Cyrene......

.....And Ariminum has a port and a river of the same name.

.....probably founded by Julius Ceasar around 46 BC, was located in the north-west of Sardinia.

Somewhere in the first century AD, when exactly is unknown, these skippers united themselves in a professional association, a collegium..........

From the research of the Ostia Marina Project new study-topics and reflections...

Il museo fantasma di Fiumicino riaprirà, ora è ufficiale......

When you visit Ancona you will notice immediately that Ancona is a harbour city at the Adriatic Sea........

Geoarchaeology confirms the location of the ancient harbour basin of Ostia......

I got immediately the following response: Pompeii itself was a Roman port city too......

 Entering on the region of Volaterra, appropriately called "The Shallows," I thread my way ........

After a little research it soon becomes apparent that ‘the’ port of Pisa does not exist........

What happened to the Roman city-centre in the late antique period? ......

Die Synagoge von Ostia befindet sich in einiger Entfernung vom Eingang des Ausgrabungsgeländes  

The archaeological complex of these baths, also known as .....

The Ostia Forum Project: part 2

Statio 10, according to the mosaic (NAVICULARI MISUENSES HIC), was a representative from Misua..........

On a coastal plain in north-central Israel, between Tel Aviv and Haifa, the famous port city Caesarea Maritima was built between 20 and 10 BC. ........

The region in the north of the Roman Empire was inhabited by a people called Frisii (Frisians) by the Romans. ...........

Then a promontory rises in the sea in the shape of a great horn...........

Many quotations have been handed down from antiquity that refer to the ancient name of Fréjus; Forum Iulii ...........

Today's Cadiz is one of the oldest cities in Western Europe that has been continuously inhabited.....

Italica was the first city to be founded in Spain by the Romans .....

Carthage was founded in the ninth century BC on the coast of North Africa as a Phoenician colony...........

At the site of present-day Lamta on Tunisia's east coast, there was already a port city named Leptis Minor ....

The magnificent city of Leptis Magna is a wonderful place to see......

In their hunger to bring the rest of the world also under their influence, for enjoying their "civilization, peace and prosperity ' .........

By moonlight the ships departed from Portus Lunae...........

There are several legends about the origins of Massalia (Roman Marseille) ...........

Narbonne, gateway to the Celtic world, has been frequently described by geographers and historians in ancient times......

According to the Greek historian Xenagoras, Antium was founded by Anthias, son of Odysseus and ....

It was one of the four largest settlements in the Xanthos Valley and the only one in open communication with the sea...........

The revival of Soli came with the arrival of the Roman general Pompey to Asia Minor in 68 BC......

The vast site of Portus holds the key to understanding how Rome evolved from a mighty city to an empire......

Ptolemais is located in eastern Libya historically known as Cyrenaica, roughly two hour’s drive from Benghazi......

Around the 8th century BC the Phoenicians established several places along the coast of northern Africa. ......

In the Sahel, in the Tunisian province of Madhia, we find by the sea the small town of Salakta....

Tarracina was located at a fairly strategic point: namely where the Volsci hills flow into the Tyrrhenian Sea ....

 The history of the city of Tarragona is the history of the port. ......

The city was also called Thapsus Minor to distinguish it from the city of Thapsus in Sicily............

According to the Greek mythology Europe, daughter of a Phoenician king, was born at Tyre in Lebanon......