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Posted on 11/19/2025 6:06:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv
ZME Science reports that a team of researchers led by Pau de Soto of the Autonomous University of Barcelona has created a high-resolution digital map of the entire known network of Roman roads called Itiner-e. These routes, as they were circa A.D. 150, cover some 186,000 miles. The study will help archaeologists calculate more accurate travel times across the Roman world, which would have had an effect on trade and warfare. De Soto and his colleagues began by extracting data from historic copies of Roman maps and the more than 8,000 known miliaria, or Roman milestones. Then they examined more recent historic maps, aerial photographs, and modern satellite imagery for glimpses of the ancient roads. Where physical evidence of roads had not survived, the researchers connected known milestones or any other archaeological evidence linked to roads by following the most plausible path along the topography. In all, less than three percent of the Roman roads in the study are well known and have been thoroughly mapped. Almost 90 percent of them fall into the category of "conjectured networks," based upon the location of settlements, milestones, and other archaeological evidence. The final category consists of "hypothetical roads" presumed to have linked ancient cities, but no physical evidence for them has been found to date. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Scientific Data. To read about the discovery of a submerged section of a Roman road in the Venetian lagoon, go to "A Trip to Venice."
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Think of the potholes.
Of course, in Roman times, they were *actual* flocks...
Here and there these weird crosslots angled roads are still in use. They survive from the mid-19th century, stagecoach roads. Stagecoaches were in use for 40 to 60 years. Any stretch of one between section line roads, where there was at least one homestead meant, it remained a right of way and road. The others reverted. Some remain gravel (or “unpaved” as some would say), but if I’m traversing The Boonies, I prefer them from time to time, if they’re more nearly direct to my destination.
Nice!
Original article
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/scientists-just-remapped-the-entire-roman-road-system-all-300000-km-of-it/
😂😂😂😂👍
I had the same reaction.
Thx, it’s already linked in the topic posting.
I think I went to high school with some of those...
The shear scale of the Roman road network is breathtaking.
Not even close. It’s the K cup.
It really tells a lot about their time in control.
I’ve herd so much about their roadmaking prowess.
I see what you did there.
In Via LXVI gaudium capis.
(You get your kicks on Route LXVI)
😎
all mapped?
Paul Whitewick https://www.youtube.com/@pwhitewick must be greatly disappointed.
He’ll have to go back to visiting all the halts and stations and canals in England 😄
Excellent! I was trying to find a segue to post this in here, since it's probably not a perfect fit, and doesn't really strike me as a standalone topic:
Scouting a few maps of late and I came across a feature in the Landscape I have never seen before. At least I thought I hadn't. It turns out there are hardly any of these monuments, so I wanted to investigate a little further.Did I Solve a 5000 year old MYSTERY? | 16:43
Paul Whitewick | 214K subscribers | 115,489 views | November 2, 2025
00:00 - What is that!!??
02:12 - One mile East!
03:46 - Help Part One
06:23 - What we missed
08:21 - Help Part Two
11:11 - Cursus
13:53 - The Light
16:17 - Outtakes
Errors and Notes: 1. 2:17 - "East"
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