About 2,000 years ago, the powerful Roman Empire established a boundary at the northern edge of its territory in continental ...

VIA ROMANA A new interactive map of the Roman Empire allows users to calculate costs in time and money for hundreds of river, road and sea routes. W. Scheidel and E. Meeks.

This is ORBIS, an online simulation (and thoroughly brainy time sink) that allows you to chart a route through the Roman Empire circa 200 AD. As the developers explain: ...

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable find with the help of advanced AI that could challenge longstanding beliefs about ...

The Roman Empire was remarkably industrious when it came to infrastructure, constructing more than 55,000 miles of paved roads across Europe and North Africa. It’s challenging to visualize the ...

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman ...

A new map of the ancient Roman empire plots its major roads in a way that makes sense to modern city dwellers— a subway system.. Basing the map off of 125 A.D, in the midst of Hadrian's reign ...

A new map of the ancient Roman empire plots its major roads in a way that makes sense to modern city dwellers- a subway system. Basing the map off of 125 A.D, in the midst of Hadrian's reign, the ...

Or so says this wonderfully thought-out fantasy transit map from Sasha Trubetskoy, showing the major thoroughfares of the Roman Empire circa 125 A.D. as dozens of stops along multicolored subway ...