Documenting Rome’s frontier

[guy]

 

Please remember the text below:

Here is an article discussing a series of books documenting the ancient Roman frontier network. The project began with efforts to have the limes in Upper Germany recognized as a World Heritage Site. This required more thorough documentation of the 550 km-long Roman frontier. This initial effort was the first of twenty books written over a span of twenty years to comprehensively document the entire Roman frontier.

 

https://the-past.com/feature/encircling-the-empire-how-romes-frontier-network-was-chronicled/

Edited July 12, 2024 by guy

[caesar novus]

So limes means frontiers. Those Roman frontier books as well as many other archeo ones are available on free (slow) pdf downloads at https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Open-Access/Open-Access . Some have great photography; I will post a few examples: