[SunkenCiv]

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[Ciaphas Cain]

Thank you for posting this! History degree though I have, the extent of ancient Rome’s reach is something I’ve at times wondered about but never investigated on my own. You’ve enlightened me :-)

[Adder]

I’ve always been surprised that the Romans were not more exploratory, as it were.
Did they circumnavigate Africa? I don’t recall that they did.
Did they press westward past the Orkneys? Not recorded...
Iceland? Greenland? North America?
I am not even sure they actually reached Poland or Norway...their trade goods and some objects may have but those items could have traded their way there at the end of trade networks.
Maybe when they “read” more scrolls from Herculaneum, we will stumble on more...