Roman Roads, revisited

History and archaeology, combined with 21st century technology, made possible this very interesting study. The maps are so illuminating!

All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped (Gift Article)

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

www.nytimes.com

If you want to see additional maps and read details, make a big pot of tea and go straight to the source:

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

www.nature.com

And Italy is full of Roman ruins, partial roadbeds, etc. Fascinating. Not the kind of temporary slipshod roads we make today.

Brilliant deduction. By far, they built the most roads in more temperate climates. And without all the fog and rain.

But if the Romans had stuck around the British Isles a few centuries, they could have learned the joy of fish & chips with malt vinegar.