ROME TRANSFORMED: RESEARCHING THE EASTERN CAELIAN C1-C8 CE (ROME)

'Rome Transformed: Interdisciplinary analysis of political, military, and religious regenerations of the city's forgotten quarter C1-C8 CE' launched on 1 October 2019. The project is funded as an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 835271). Hosted by Newcastle University, the award brings together researchers from that university with colleagues from the British School at Rome, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and the University of Florence. Rome Transformed (ROMETRANS) aims to develop understanding of Rome and its place in cultural change across the Mediterranean world by mapping political, military/security, and religious changes to the eastern Caelian from the first to eighth centuries. The programme brings together archaeologists, architects, earth systems engineers, geographers, historians, hydrologists, and environmental scientists to analyse both the mundane and monumental elements of the city's fabric in chronological, geographical, and ideological relationship to one another. From the late Republican/early imperial period horti through successive imperial palaces to the seat of papal governance, the area's architecture embodied changing expressions of political power.