Mapped: Every known (and suspected) road in the Roman Empire
Rome wasn’t built in a day . All roads lead to Rome . A recent study now links those two well-worn proverbs by suggesting that the footprint of Roman road infrastructure was 59% larger than previously thought. The revelation isn’t just quantitative — a network with a finer mesh might change what we think life was like across Rome’s vast domain. From Hadrian’s Wall to the Persian Gulf The findings…
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