Welcome to the ARIADNE Portal where you can search over 2 million records relating to archaeological fieldwork reports, research papers, scientific datasets, sites and monuments through to individual artefacts from across the world.

The search is designed to start with one or more key words where logical “AND” is applied. For example, a search for “gold coin” will return only records where both these words are to be found in the metadata record. The default setting is “All fields”, i.e. the whole record is searched. There are several filters on the Results page which can be applied to further refine the returned results.

Alternatively, there are broad filters available here for a more targeted search:

• Time period - name of time period(s) e.g. Iron age, medieval...
• Place - place name which can be anything from a specific location to a continent.
• Title - only the title fields are searched for matching terms.
• Getty Arts and Architecture Thesaurus subject - the subject(s) defined by the data provider are matched to the Getty AAT which enables the end user to see and search for data with matching translations and also related terms. More on the Getty AAT:  https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/about.html