Revolutionary Digital Map Reveals Extent of Ancient Roman Roads
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A team of international researchers has created a detailed map of the Roman road system around AD 150, covering over 300,000 km, which offers new insights into ancient Roman connectivity, travel, and influence, despite many roads still being uncertain in exact location. The visualization tool supports further research into Roman infrastructure and its long-term effects on the empire and beyond.
- Stunning map of ancient roads will give you a good reason to think about the Roman Empire more often CNN
- Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire Nature
- All the Roads That Led to Ancient Rome in One New Digital Map Scientific American
- Impressive new visualization tool is the ‘Google Maps’ for Ancient Rome, according to researchers New York Post
- All roads in ancient Rome stretched far longer than previously known, study shows abcnews.go.com
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