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08 May 2026

Export Updates 2026-05-08:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

7 new and 19 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

10b9a25d - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
86ec6d3a - updated gis package
1c9632a5 - updated data quality
7b4e395d - updated bibliography
c722e0dd - updated indexes
0ab13c81 - updated sidebar

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

448b74f1 - updated geojson and names index

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

19f42f3b - updated pleiades wikidata

07 May 2026

Registration is now open for another three-part, free, "Getting Started" online workshop series to orient and train new people interested in using and contributing to the of ancient places.

The series will run from 10am-noon US Eastern time on Thursday, Tuesday, and Thursday 18, 23, and 25 June 2026. To learn more and to register in advance (required), please visit pleiades.stoa.org/events. This series is in addition to (and identical in content to) [the previously announced series earlier in June: pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/ge.

Two or three more sets of these three-parters will be run later in the summer (and on different weekdays and different times to accommodate schedules and timezones). Additional announcements will be made when those dates and times are set.

Please boost for visibility.

07 May 2026

Since Monday, the editorial college published 12 new and 20 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 7 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a at one of the new ones. Authored by Gabriel McKee (@SecretTerror), we now have a place for the Katoghike Tsiranavor Church of Avan, the oldest surviving church structure within the boundaries of modern Yerevan, constructed in the late 6th century CE: pleiades.stoa.org/places/37548

07 May 2026

Export Updates 2026-05-07:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

5 new and 14 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

605fd2fd - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
77ae176b - updated gis package
7494954e - updated data quality
bf2e63e5 - updated bibliography
96060fb0 - updated indexes
3755a587 - updated sidebar

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

0ea34e00 - updated geojson and names index

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

0ffa8d08 - updated pleiades wikidata

07 May 2026

The cause of overnight export failure has been identified and addressed, and the export script re-run. Derivative generation and reports are running now.

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 127 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, John Muccigrosso and Nicolas Souchon.
Last Week in Pleiades (7-14 April 2025)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map spans west to east: the western Mediterranean to Central Asia. From north to south, it spans: the British Isles to the northern Red Sea.

New Place Resources

Updated Place Resources