Researchers built the most complete Roman road map ever made, charting nearly 186,000 miles across Europe, North Africa, and ...
By piecing together historical records, topographic maps, and satellite imagery, the research team covered more ground than ...
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining ...
The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of ...
Meet Itiner-e, a new high-resolution digital dataset and map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 CE. A team of researchers ...
At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an ...
A new digital map, Itiner-e, reveals 300,000 km of Roman roads across the ancient empire, offering a high-tech look at the ...
Modern geographic information systems have identified 186,000 miles of Roman roads and highways, combining all existing ...
New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...
A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is ...
By 150 CE, the Empire was carved up and maintained by a network of stone/gravel/sand highways stretching 180,000 miles.
A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.