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Exploring Rome’s ancient port. Portus Field School 2014 Background About Portus The Field School is hosted by the Portus Project Portus (Fiumicino) was the maritime port of ancient (), established six years ago Rome and, together with the neighbouring river port with an aim to study the maritime port of Imperial at Ostia, was the focus of a network of ports serving Rome, Portus, located at the mouth of the Tiber (Italy). Imperial Rome between the mid-1st century AD and Directed by Prof. Simon Keay and led by the University the 6th century AD. It was established by Claudius, of Southampton, the project is run as an international enlarged by Trajan, and subsequently modified during collaboration with a number of partners, including the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The port began to enter the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di a period of slow decline from the late 5th century AD Roma, the British School at Rome and the University onwards, although it was the scene of a major struggle of Cambridge. Due to its academic excellence and between Byzantine and Ostrogothic troops during the cutting-edge innovation in fieldwork techniques, Gothic wars (AD 535-553). including computer modelling work developed by the Portus was critically important for supplying the city project co-director Dr Graeme Earl, Portus is currently of Imperial Rome with foodstuffs and materials from a leading Roman archaeology excavation recognized across the Mediterranean from the 1st century AD as such by the highest academic funding bodies, whose onwards. It also acted as both a point of export for support it continues to enjoy, as well as wide media supplies and products from the Tiber Valley to the coverage, including recent BBC1 programme Rome’s north of Rome, and a major hub for the redistribution Lost Empire (“The Roman Empire: what lies beneath” of goods