The Ottoman Empire ruled vast territories for centuries, but by the 19th and early 20th centuries, internal corruption, economic struggles, and military defeats weakened the once-mighty empire. This ...
For centuries, historians have traced the arteries of the Roman Empire through fragmentary maps and uneven records. Now, a new digital atlas nearly doubles the known extent of Roman roads, charting ...
A new digital map presents the vast Roman road network. Photo of part of ancient Via Egnatia in Kavala, Greece. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer CC BY-SA 3.0 A new digital, interactive map reveals the vast ...
The itiner-e (https://itiner-e.org/) map and database of the road network of the Roman Empire at its peek. With historical records and satellite imagery, researchers ...
Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...
A roadway near Timgad – Credit Itiner-e, Artas Media, MINERVA. It was said that all roads lead to Rome, but from where do all the roads to Rome lead? Using a mountain of data, a team of two dozen ...
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Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...
How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, anyone can ...