Principal Routes of the Roman Road Network. By 125 CE, the Roman Empire had built one of the most advanced and extensive road systems in the ancient world. Stretching over 400,000 kilometers, Roman roads connected major cities, military bases, and trade centers across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The Roman road network played a major role in spreading culture, commerce, and ideas throughout the empire. #RomanEmpire #RomanRoads #AncientHistory #HistoricalMaps #RomanEngineering #WorldHistory #AncientInfrastructure #RomanCivilization #125CE

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A Roman milestone from the 3rd century, standing in the heart of Esztergom, Hungary.
This stone once marked distances along a Roman military road, later known as the Via Publica.

A quiet reminder that modern cities often grow directly on top of ancient infrastructure.

#RomanEmpire #RomanHistory #AncientRome #RomanRoads
#Archaeology #AncientHistory #HistoryLovers
#Heritage #CulturalHeritage #HistoricStones #StoneMonument
#EuropeHistory #CentralEurope
#Hungary #Esztergom
#UrbanHistory #Timeless

The Roman Fossway, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, 1909 - Clift & Ryland Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/the-roman-fossway-stow-on-the-wold-gloucs-1909-clift-ryland-postcard-223687666.htm

#StowOnTheWold #Cotswolds #RomanRoads #FosseWay

@kbm0

Truly remarhkable. Zooming into and out of the map, and looking at places I know from my personal life, makes the vastness of this system tangible.

I checked out various places where I have worked or studied. As a student in Cambridge, I rented a room in an Old Rectory in a village near Cambridge, and this house was directly by the old Roman road that leaves Cambridge northwards. In Germany, our home in the hills above Frankfurt was very close to a Roman road, at the extreme edge of the empire, just a few miles out from one of the Roman border forts. In Israel, the Kibbutz I worked in as a young man, north of Sea of Galilee, also was located directly at the place of a Roman road.

A vast area spanning over three continents, countless micro-cosms all interconnected by a single, well-maintained system. Stunning.

#RomanRoads #RomanEmpire #networks

New on the #ISAWNYU news blog by me: Connecting the Ancient World: Pleiades and Itiner-e

https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/pleiades-itiner-e

> The integration of two expert-curated datasets is a perfect example of the value of Linked Open Data. By building these digital bridges, we create a richer, more interconnected picture of the ancient world, benefiting everyone from the curious browser to the dedicated scholar. We congratulate the Itiner-e team on their successful launch and look forward to our continued collaboration.

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #RomanRoads #ancientRome #PleiadesGazetteer

For map nerds everywhere, fabulous interactive route planner of the Roman empire. The map includes nearly 300,000 kilometres of roads existing in around ad 150, when the empire was at its maximum territorial extent.

#Maps #RomanEmpire #RomanRoads

‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03626-z

Have you always wanted a route planner like Google Maps for the good old Roman times around 2000ys ago?

Then take a look at this amazing research project by a team from several universities led by Tom Brughmans from Aarhus University. Part of the project was the development of such a route planner.

Now you can easily find out for example how long it took to travel the fastest way (🏇) from historic Verona to Lutetia (now Paris): only 172 hours 😁

https://itiner-e.org/

#archeology #RomanRoads

@ScribblingSandy

LOOK, LOOK!!!

New map shows over 110,000 kilometers MORE of Roman roads than were previously known!

#RomanEmpire #RomanRoads

https://gizmodo.com/the-roman-empires-entire-road-network-just-got-mapped-and-its-mind-blowing-2000681707