Between 1946 and 1987 the International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) published the Fasti Archaeologici. It contained very useful summary notices of excavations throughout the area of the Roman Empire. However, spiraling costs and publication delays combined to render it less and less useful. AIACs board of directors thus decided in 1998 to discontinue the publication and to seek a new way of recording and diffusing new results.

With the generous support of the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) we are proposing a more in-depth coverage of current excavations, begun in Italy and now expanding to Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Romania and Serbia. The site is a web-based GIS database that will contain a basic record sheet for each site excavated for any period in a given year with, at the discretion of the site director, the interim report for the year, together with any further documentation the director wishes to add. There is no chronological limitation to the sites listed, which range from the Upper Palaeolithic to the nineteenth century, and reports on restoration projects and new museum displays are also welcomed. The site is multilingual, with editions currently available English, Italian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian, and Arabic and French versions in progress. Sites are searchable by project name, by period and type of site, and by clickable maps which provide an overview of the excavation locations. Links will be provided to a project’s web site where possible. Each new update for a site in successive years will constitute a separate entry. For directors wishing to provide more information than can be contained in a short form we offer the opportunity to publish an article in our on-line journal, Fasti On Line Documents & Research, or FOLD&R. This welcomes illustrated excavation reports, as well as reports detailing museum and conservation projects, but the sites considered should be connected to one of the sites listed in the FASTI. National editions of FOLD&R are in preparation for Malta and Bulgaria. Anyone wishing to publish an article should contact the responsible for the country in question

The site as it currently stands is the result of a collaboration with, for Italy, the Ministero dei Beni Culturali and the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, for Romania, with the Institutul de Memorie Culturala Bucuresti (CIMEC), for Bulgaria, with the Department of Archaeology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, for Malta with Heritage Malta and the Superintendency for Archaeology, for Macedonia with the Institute for History of Art and Archaeology, University St. Cyril and Methodius and Vardarski Rid Foundation. In future years we hope to further extend the scope of the site to any country that wishes to take part, although our priorities are currently in the Mediterranean area. The use of the database and help in setting up a project for a country will be provided by AIAC.