Houses of Roman Timgad
Stone walls of houses at Timgad rising out of the plain, with mountains beyond.

Open digital humanities project

The rhythms, smells, and work
of a provincial Roman home.

A public home for the houses of Roman Timgad, an ancient Roman city in modern Algeria. An open source digital humanities project cataloging around one hundred houses and the lives lived inside them.

The remains of houses in Timgad's northeastern quarter, looking south toward the Aurès mountains.

A public home for the houses of Roman Timgad, an ancient Roman city in modern Algeria. This project catalogs around one hundred houses at Timgad, publishes the data behind the scholarship, and asks what home actually meant for the veterans, workshop owners, and local Numidians who lived and worked there. The goal is to push past inherited Pompeian clichés and build a fuller, more honest picture of provincial Roman homes, in the open.

How people make a home inside an empire they did not choose, and how the spaces we build end up shaping who we become, are questions as alive now as they were eighteen centuries ago.