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16 December 2025

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Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

10 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

f6898b04 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
8ca991d3 - updated gis package
151a5c74 - updated data quality
835ba3d7 - updated bibliography
b3d87a6f - updated indexes
98742f09 - updated sidebar

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

eccfe06a - updated geojson and names index

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

9107d66b - updated pleiades wikidata

15 December 2025

Last Week in the (8-15 December 2025) the editorial college published 5 new and 451 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, R. Scott Smith and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries, and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la

15 December 2025

Export Updates 2025-12-15:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

121 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

6f4641c2 - updated json
fec0127b - updated rdf/ttl
693d8526 - updated gis package
01460678 - updated data quality
7ee89615 - updated bibliography
8d2a5c1a - updated indexes
6f17950e - updated sidebar

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

959ab480 - updated geojson and names index

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

918db3ee - updated pleiades wikidata

12 December 2025

Export Updates 2025-12-12:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

16 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

e9b0d258 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
8bdbc298 - updated gis package
1d93d051 - updated data quality
d0fe2c82 - updated bibliography
5a36d95b - updated indexes
44f7c9a0 - updated sidebar

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

2458f0d7 - updated geojson and names index

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

31a94daa - updated pleiades wikidata

10 December 2025

Export Updates 2025-12-10:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

73 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

8fcf5a87 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
43a87ed6 - updated gis package
8fd5929f - updated data quality
a925eb02 - updated bibliography
1ed39c97 - updated indexes
b2a9d061 - updated sidebar

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

b8434d5c - updated geojson

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

60ff91b5 - updated pleiades wikidata

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new and 275 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle and Gabriel Mckee.
Last Week in Pleiades (2-9 December 2024)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map covers most of Europe, Central and South Asia, and Africa.

New Place Resources

  • al-Husn Church
    A ruined and now largely dispersed fifth-century CE church on the outskirts of al-Bara, Syria.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Arch of Marcus Antonius
    The so-called "Arch of Marcus Antonius" takes its name from a local tradition that the citizens of Aquinum built the monument in a single day to honor Antonius. In all likelihood, it is a monument connected either to a deductio of veterans sent to Aquinum in 41 BCE or to the work of Caius Calvisius Sabinus who reorganized the via Latina in 27 BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Arslan Kaya monument
    The rock-cut "Arslan Kaya monument" located just west of Lake Emre in Turkey is in the Phrygian Highlands. The monument carries an inscription in Old Phrygian to the goddess Materan.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Aşağımollahasan höyük
    Aşağımollahasan höyük is a prehistoric höyük located in Özalp, Turkey.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Boncuklu Tarla
    Boncuklu Tarla is an archaeological site located in the Mardin province of Turkey. The human settlement was occupied from the Late Epipalaeolithic to Pre-Pottery Neolithic B periods.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Burbia River
    The Río Burbia is a river in the northern interior of the Iberian Peninsula. it is located to the north of the El Bierzo region in the province of León.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Carceri Vecchie
    The so-called "le Carceri Vecchie" is a first-century CE Roman mausoleum. Its original position on the Via Appia placed it outside the walls of ancient Capua.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Kalugumalai, Mangulam
    Hill near the village of Mangulam in Tamil Nadu. The hill contains several rock caves used by Jain monks and six Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions dated to the third-second centuries BCE.
    Creators: Gabriel McKee
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Karahan Tepe
    Karahan Tepe is an archaeological site covering some 10 hectares located in Turkey's Şanlıurfa Province. More than 250 t-shaped monuments have been discovered at the site which is associated with the so-called Tepeler cultures. Karahan Tepe lies within the environs of Gôbekli Tepe and may pre-date that site.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Norşuntepe
    Norşuntepe is the site of a Chalcolithic and Iron Age tell located in Turkey's Elazığ Province. Excavations led by Harald Hauptmann between 1968 and 1974 identified 40-some occupational horizons stretching from the fifth millennium BCE to the Iron Age. It is now partially inundated by Lake Keban.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Sanctuary of Zeus Aphesios (Megarid)
    Pausanias mentions the Sanctuary of Zeus Aphesios as being located atop a mountain. The site was excavated ca. 1890 and has views over the Saronic Gulf.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Tom Elliott
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Siyapur
    Settlement in Uttar Pradesh, India containing remains dated from the pre-Painted Grey Ware period (1200 BCE) through the Kushana period (3rd century CE).
    Creators: Gabriel McKee
    Published by: Tom Elliott

Updated Place Resources