Pleiades Project Blog
You can use a feed reader to subscribe to the Atom feed of this blog. You can also subscribe to a separate Atom feed of all recently added and updated gazetteer entries. Each individual place resource in the gazetteer also has its own Atom feed, so you can monitor the records for places you care about (look for "Atom" under the "Alternate representations" heading on any place page).
Pleiades has a frequent announcements and site status account on hcommons.social in the Fediverse that you can visit in your browser, follow with an ActivityPub-capable application at @pleiades_gazetteer@hcommons.social, or subscribe using RSS. That account is also mirrored in Bluesky as @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy for those who wish to follow it there.Last Week in Pleiades (24-31 March 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 28 new and 177 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Chris de Lisle, Gethin Rees, Nicolas Souchon and Scott Vanderbilt.
Last Week in Pleiades (17-24 March 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 24 new and 103 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anthony Durham, Tom Elliott, Güner Girgin, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Sean Manning, Nicolas Souchon and Scott Vanderbilt.
Last Week in Pleiades (10-17 March 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 19 new and 246 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Chris de Lisle, Sean Manning and Nicolas Souchon.
Last Week in Pleiades (3-10 March 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 7 new and 134 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Matthew Clark, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.
New from AWMC: The Geography of Pliny the Elder
This online application compiles and maps the geographic data in Pliny's Natural History. The database includes some 6,500 unique entries, and this application maps all those entries that are locatable.
New Help Document: Citation Guide (2025)
This citation guide supersedes previous versions.
Changelog for February 2025
During the month of February 2025, the Pleiades editorial college published 71 new and 1,115 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Sarah Bond, Catherine Bouras, Lucas Butler, Anne Chen, Matthew Clark, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Nicolas Souchon, Néhémie Strupler and Richard Talbert.
New Feature: Pleiades Sidebar for Linked Data
This new feature helps users find external resources that link to a Pleiades place page.
Last Week in Pleiades (24 February - 3 March 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 44 new and 136 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Matthew Clark, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Nicolas Souchon and Néhémie Strupler.
Last Week in Pleiades (17-24 February 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 16 new and 200 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Sarah Bond, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.
Now Available: Pleiades Datasets 4.0.1
41,200 place resources: free, open, and platform-neutral.
Last Week in Pleiades (10-17 February 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 13 new and 425 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle and Gabriel McKee.
Last Week in Pleiades (3-10 February 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 15 new and 333 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Lucas Butler, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling, and Richard Talbert.
2024 Pleiades gazetteer change log
Over the course of the year 2024, the Pleiades editorial college published 711 new and 7,827 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Ella Arnold, Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Bodard, Sarah Bond, Catherine Bouras, Lucas Butler, Iulian Bîrzescu, Anne Chen, Birgit Christiansen, Niels Christofferson, James Cowey, Francis Deblauwe, Dan Diffendale, Anthony Durham, Tom Elliott, Jordy Didier Orellana Figueroa, Martina Filosa, Jonathan Fu, Ryosuke Furui, Maija Gierhart, Sean Gillies, Matthias Grawehr, Amelia Grissom, Maxime Guénette, Andrew Harris, Greta Hawes, Ryan M. Horne, Carolin Johansson, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Noah Kaye, Philip Kenrick, Brady Kiesling, Yaniv Korman, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Thomas Landvatter, Chris de Lisle, Yuyao Liu, Stanisław Ludwiński, Sean Manning, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, Jamie Novotny, Philipp Pilhofer, D.T. Potts, Jonathan Prag, Adam Rabinowitz, Rune Rattenborg, María Jesús Redondo, Charlotte Roueché, Karen Rubinson, Thomas Seidler, Rosemary Selth, Jason M. Silverman, R. Scott Smith, Néhémie Strupler, Richard Talbert, Francis Tassaux, Clifflena Tiah, Georgios Tsolakis, Scott Vanderbilt, Athanasia Varveri, Valeria Vitale and Johan Åhlfeldt.
Last Week in Pleiades (27 January - 3 February 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 29 new and 347 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel Mckee, Jamie Novotny, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith and Clifflena Tiah.
Last Week in Pleiades (20-27 January 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 4 new and 193 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Sarah Bond, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling and Jonathan Prag.
Last Week in Pleiades (13-20 January 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new and 250 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Birgit Christiansen, Francis Deblauwe, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel McKee, Adam Rabinowitz, Thomas Seidler and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 January 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 437 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee and John Muccigrosso.
Around the Solstice in Pleiades (16 December 2024 - 6 January 2025)
Since 16 December, the Pleiades editorial college published 13 new and 816 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Jordy Didier Orellana Figueroa, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle and Gabriel McKee.
Last Week in Pleiades (9-16 December 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 390 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Bodard, Catherine Bouras, Birgit Christiansen, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Thomas Seidler, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.