Pleiades Gazetter of the Ancient World API provides open access to the most comprehensive geospatial dataset for antiquity available today. It already serves as an indispensable component of other important digital humanities projects, ranging from online editions of primary sources for students to expert systems supporting advanced research in fields like archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics. It also constitutes a core resource for classroom activities focused on ancient geography.
NOTE: Please observe crawl-delay directives when consuming Pleiades JSON resources, as they are database-intensive in the current implementation
Related link – Pleiades Gazetter – Ancient World