Sites register
The sites which are drawn in the eclipse maps vary according to the historical period. Prior to the Christian aera
the most important archaeological sites are drawn: but in regions where the sites are located very close to each
other it was necessary to make some sort of selection, which sometimes satisfies less the importance of a site than
the legibility of the resulting map. For the Christian/Byzantine period mainly sites with cloisters have been
chosen. The geograhical coordinates of the sites were collected in the Internet from a multitude of different
sources. However, whenever available the geographical coordinates were taken from a Wikipedia article about
the site.
Information about the most important sites of a period is extracted mainly from the following sources:
- Italy:
- Ploetz (2008)[1]
between 2000 BC and 100 AD
- Jedin (1970)[2] after 100 AD
- Greece and Asia Minor:
- Dickinson (1994)[3]
between 2500 and 1000 BC
- Ploetz (2008)[1]
between 1000 BC and 100 AD
- Jedin (1970)[2] after 100 AD
- Near East:
- Kuhrt (1995)[4]
between 2500 and 330 BC
- Ploetz (2008)[1]
between 330 BC and 100 AD
- Jedin (1970)[2] after 100 AD
- Egypt:
- Baines &Málek (1980)[5]
between 2500 BC and 100 AD
- Jedin (1970)[2]
between 100 AD and 800 AD
- Ploetz (2008)[1]
after 800 AD
Bibliography
- 1 K. J. Ploetz (Begründer), Der grosse Ploetz. Die Enzyklopädie der
Weltgeschichte, 35. Auflage, Freiburg 2008.
- 2 H. Jedin (Hrsg.), Atlas zur Kirchengeschichte, Freiburg 1970.
- 3 O. Dickinson, The Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge 1994.
- 4 A. Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East c. 3000 - 330 BC, London 1995.
- 5 J. Baines &J. Málek, Atlas of Ancient Egypt, Oxford 1980.
This work was supported by a Marie Heim-Vögtlin grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Created by
Rita Gautschy, version 2.0, January 2012