The Video Project
In 2011, Fasti Online invited the American Institute for Roman Culture (AIRC) to produce short video documentaries for participating excavation sites, bringing the database’s fieldwork records to a broader public audience. AIRC filmed six documentaries at active sites in Rome and the surrounding region, distributed through its YouTube channel now Ancient Rome.
The series included: Fasti Online: The First 8 Years, an overview of the project presented by Di Giuseppe and Fentress; The Gabii Project, documenting excavations at the ancient Latin city of Gabii east of Rome; Church of St. Mark between the Via Appia and Via Ardeatina; Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia, covering an American research initiative reexamining Pompeii’s social and economic history; and AIRC Excavations in the Parco dei Ravennati, documenting AIRC’s own fieldwork at Ostia Antica. Additional sites documented included the Palatine Hill, Oppian Hill, and Sant’Omobono. More than 35 other active projects subsequently requested documentation by AIRC.
What is Fasti Online:
IFasti Online takes its name and purpose from the ancient Roman tradition of the fasti – the official records of public life such as the chronological lists of magistrates, triumphs, and civic events that formed the backbone of institutional memory.
A project of the International Association of Classical Archaeology (AIAC) and the Center for the Study of Ancient Italy at the University of Texas at Austin, Fasti Online is a database of archaeological excavations conducted across the classical world since the year 2000. It currently documents over 3,700 sites across 14 countries, with many sites represented across multiple seasons — building a cumulative record of fieldwork as it unfolds rather than after the fact.
The platform operates on three fronts. The excavation database organizes records by site and season, with a GIS interface for geographic navigation. A conservation database, developed with ICCROM, tracks archaeological conservation projects by the same method. FOLD&R — Fasti On Line Documents & Research — is the project’s peer-reviewed, open-access journal, with FOLD&R Italia publishing illustrated excavation reports from Italy and FOLD&R AC dedicated to conservation.
The collaboration established the video and public outreach model that would become the foundation of Ancient Rome Live (ARL), AIRC’s free digital platform for original educational content on Roman history and archaeology.
Website: www.fastionline.org
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