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WRITER FUEL: The Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, a new mapping project finds.

https://www.limfic.com/2026/05/09/writer-fuel-the-roman-road-network-was-twice-as-large-as-we-thought/

#WriterFuel #StoryIdeas #Rome #RomanRoads #History #Mapping

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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Cornovia Postcards Jan 22

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

the roamer Jan 13

@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

JuneSim63 💚Nov 8, 2025

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

‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network

A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.

udo m. rader ☕ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🐧Nov 7, 2025

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

itiner-e

Regina Kammer Nov 6, 2025

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z
#OpenAccess #RomanEmpire #RomanRoads #Archaeology #Maps

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data

The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. Yet, it remains incompletely mapped and poorly integrated across sources despite centuries of research. We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories. The dataset nearly doubles the known length of Roman roads through increased coverage and spatial precision, and reveals that the location of only 2.737% are known with certainty. This resource is transformative for understanding how mobility shaped connectivity, administration, and even disease transmission in the ancient world, and for studies of the millennia-long development of terrestrial mobility in the region.

Nature