After some delay, monthly #PleiadesGazetteer changelogs have now been posted through April 2026: https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/changelogs-for-december-2025-april-2026

They document the publication of 242 new and 4,031 updated place resources during that time period, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Joel Bellviure, Gabriel Bodard, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Ilaria Cristofaro, Matteo Di Domenica, Mattia D’Acri, Tom Elliott, Jordy Didier Orellana Figueroa, Sean Gillies, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, José Antonio Artés Hernández, Leif Isaksen, Carolin Johansson, Noah Kaye, Brady Kiesling, Eleftheria Konstantinidou, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel Mckee, John Muccigrosso, Maria Del Rocio Da Riva Muñoz, Gethin Rees, Charlotte Roueché, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Nicolas Souchon, Richard Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, Jaume Noguera Vila-Masana, Valeria Vitale and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

Export Updates 2026-05-14:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

8 new and 28 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

"main" branch:

3b24767c - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
3f295803 - updated gis package
38a5daf3 - updated data quality
487f3c8c - updated bibliography
f0eaa09f - updated indexes
d7128bb7 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: https://github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geojson:

56813f44 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wikidata/:

5ba2f537 - updated pleiades wikidata

The Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has refurbished and relaunched their digital map of places mentioned by Hierokles.

https://awmc.unc.edu/maps-for-texts-series/#Hierokles

Over on BlueSky, AWMC Director Gabriel Moss announces:

> Exciting news for folks interested in #LateAntiquity and GIS. AWMC's map of Hierokles' Synekdemos (offline since 2023) has now been refurbished and relaunched. Special thanks to Grace Bell for *lots* of heavy lifting on this project.

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory