26 May 2025 Students from the Constructing the Limes minor, together with archaeologists from Saxion, have discovered a Roman army camp on the Veluwe near Hoog Buurlo. “What makes this find so remarkable is that the camp lies beyond the northern frontier of the Roman Empire,” says Saskia Stevens (Utrecht University). At the time, the Empire’s outer border ran…

The symposium takes place on May 15th 2025 in Utrecht, and is organised as part of the NWO Constructing the Limes project and co-funded by the Archon research school.

Title: A Divine Inspiration for Border Studies; Conceptually Excavating the Polydivine Roman Border Landscape of Terminus, Janus, Mercurius, Trivia and Pluto Authors: Paschalina Garidou, Henk van Houtum, Saskia Stevens and Luuk Winkelmolen Publication year: 2024 Publication type: article in journal Abstract What can we learn from the Romans regarding the understanding of borders? For various…

This article, written by Koen Ottenheym, examines how cities in the late 16th and 17th centuries used knowledge about the Roman limes.

It is a diverse collection of antiquities: the more than 15,000 objects of the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (PUG). 

This newsletter will update you on the latest developments in our research project Constructing the Limes.

How do the various disciplines and subprojects look within Constructing the Limes? And which partners are involved in the project? You’ll find out through the handy animation.

In this epilogue, Garidou, Winkelmolen and van Houtum draw upon an inspiring and thought-provoking anthology of chapters on borders, boundaries, liminality, and transgression.

In this paper, Winkelmolen, Garidou and van Houtum analyze the “Colosseum interview” of former U.K. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in which he pleads for fierce border control against refugees, “like the Romans did.”

Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) has become one of the standard applications in the field of paleogenomics in recent years. However, its application in archaeology has been limited and primarily focused on humans. This article argues …