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  1. Researchers Have Analyzed The Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network Of Roads. Turns Out, Not All Of Them Led To Rome
    (for a new study, archaeologists attempted to answer age-old questions about Rome’s roads, including how connected the capital was and whether current motorways trace Roman routes)
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    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared technical article
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    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-754 <-- shared paper
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    newscientist.com/article/25893 <-- shared technical article
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    thetimes.com/uk/science/articl <-- shared media article
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    doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17122148 <-- shared (Zendo) open data access, ‘A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire: Itiner-e’ static version 2024 (#GPKG, #GeoJSON and SHP)
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    itiner-e.org/ <-- shared itiner-e.org Roman Roads web map
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    itiner-e.org/about <-- shared itiner-e.org overview and description of data downloads, etc
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    youtu.be/OTSe7MsJXbo?si=T7shjF <-- shared video overview, Travel the Roads of the Roman Empire on itiner-e.org
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    “… “All roads lead to Rome.” Everyone knows the adage. But according to new research [link above]…, the ancient Roman Empire’s sprawling highways weren’t as connected to the Eternal City, or quite as sophisticated, as that saying and other commonly held notions about them suggest.
    “All roads lead to Rome? They are all straight? We still walk Roman roads in the region today? These are widely held assumptions, even among academics,”[said one of the authors.]
    Such claims have prevented historians from interrogating the Roman road system [they also said, 3rd link above] “We just assume that Rome was at the center of a spider’s web of roads, and that’s simply not true.”
    Last year, [they] created a digital, publicly accessible map of the Roman Empire’s nearly 190,000 miles of roads in 150 C.E. For their recent study, the researchers analyzed topographical data and historical context to make judgments about that network…”
    #history #ancienthistory #Rome #roads #romanroads #mapping #spatialanalysis #webmap #opendata #Itiner-e #RomanEmpire #infrastructure #archaeology #connections #network #routing #highways #topography #elevation #grade #settlements #community #culture #cities #towns #commerce #trade #spatial #GIS #mapping #mobility #empire #military #modernday #roads #equivalency #slope #sinuosity #density #kernaldensity #statistics #geostatistics #regression #centrality #ports #riverine #maritime #trade #shipping

  2. Researchers Have Analyzed The Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network Of Roads. Turns Out, Not All Of Them Led To Rome
    (for a new study, archaeologists attempted to answer age-old questions about Rome’s roads, including how connected the capital was and whether current motorways trace Roman routes)
    --
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared technical article
    --
    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-754 <-- shared paper
    --
    newscientist.com/article/25893 <-- shared technical article
    --
    thetimes.com/uk/science/articl <-- shared media article
    --
    doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17122148 <-- shared (Zendo) open data access, ‘A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire: Itiner-e’ static version 2024 (#GPKG, #GeoJSON and SHP)
    --
    itiner-e.org/ <-- shared itiner-e.org Roman Roads web map
    --
    itiner-e.org/about <-- shared itiner-e.org overview and description of data downloads, etc
    --
    youtu.be/OTSe7MsJXbo?si=T7shjF <-- shared video overview, Travel the Roads of the Roman Empire on itiner-e.org
    --
    “… “All roads lead to Rome.” Everyone knows the adage. But according to new research [link above]…, the ancient Roman Empire’s sprawling highways weren’t as connected to the Eternal City, or quite as sophisticated, as that saying and other commonly held notions about them suggest.
    “All roads lead to Rome? They are all straight? We still walk Roman roads in the region today? These are widely held assumptions, even among academics,”[said one of the authors.]
    Such claims have prevented historians from interrogating the Roman road system [they also said, 3rd link above] “We just assume that Rome was at the center of a spider’s web of roads, and that’s simply not true.”
    Last year, [they] created a digital, publicly accessible map of the Roman Empire’s nearly 190,000 miles of roads in 150 C.E. For their recent study, the researchers analyzed topographical data and historical context to make judgments about that network…”
    #history #ancienthistory #Rome #roads #romanroads #mapping #spatialanalysis #webmap #opendata #Itiner-e #RomanEmpire #infrastructure #archaeology #connections #network #routing #highways #topography #elevation #grade #settlements #community #culture #cities #towns #commerce #trade #spatial #GIS #mapping #mobility #empire #military #modernday #roads #equivalency #slope #sinuosity #density #kernaldensity #statistics #geostatistics #regression #centrality #ports #riverine #maritime #trade #shipping

  3. Researchers Have Analyzed The Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network Of Roads. Turns Out, Not All Of Them Led To Rome
    (for a new study, archaeologists attempted to answer age-old questions about Rome’s roads, including how connected the capital was and whether current motorways trace Roman routes)
    --
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared technical article
    --
    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-754 <-- shared paper
    --
    newscientist.com/article/25893 <-- shared technical article
    --
    thetimes.com/uk/science/articl <-- shared media article
    --
    doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17122148 <-- shared (Zendo) open data access, ‘A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire: Itiner-e’ static version 2024 (#GPKG, #GeoJSON and SHP)
    --
    itiner-e.org/ <-- shared itiner-e.org Roman Roads web map
    --
    itiner-e.org/about <-- shared itiner-e.org overview and description of data downloads, etc
    --
    youtu.be/OTSe7MsJXbo?si=T7shjF <-- shared video overview, Travel the Roads of the Roman Empire on itiner-e.org
    --
    “… “All roads lead to Rome.” Everyone knows the adage. But according to new research [link above]…, the ancient Roman Empire’s sprawling highways weren’t as connected to the Eternal City, or quite as sophisticated, as that saying and other commonly held notions about them suggest.
    “All roads lead to Rome? They are all straight? We still walk Roman roads in the region today? These are widely held assumptions, even among academics,”[said one of the authors.]
    Such claims have prevented historians from interrogating the Roman road system [they also said, 3rd link above] “We just assume that Rome was at the center of a spider’s web of roads, and that’s simply not true.”
    Last year, [they] created a digital, publicly accessible map of the Roman Empire’s nearly 190,000 miles of roads in 150 C.E. For their recent study, the researchers analyzed topographical data and historical context to make judgments about that network…”
    #history #ancienthistory #Rome #roads #romanroads #mapping #spatialanalysis #webmap #opendata #Itiner-e #RomanEmpire #infrastructure #archaeology #connections #network #routing #highways #topography #elevation #grade #settlements #community #culture #cities #towns #commerce #trade #spatial #GIS #mapping #mobility #empire #military #modernday #roads #equivalency #slope #sinuosity #density #kernaldensity #statistics #geostatistics #regression #centrality #ports #riverine #maritime #trade #shipping

  4. Researchers Have Analyzed The Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network Of Roads. Turns Out, Not All Of Them Led To Rome
    (for a new study, archaeologists attempted to answer age-old questions about Rome’s roads, including how connected the capital was and whether current motorways trace Roman routes)
    --
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared technical article
    --
    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-754 <-- shared paper
    --
    newscientist.com/article/25893 <-- shared technical article
    --
    thetimes.com/uk/science/articl <-- shared media article
    --
    doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17122148 <-- shared (Zendo) open data access, ‘A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire: Itiner-e’ static version 2024 (#GPKG, and SHP)
    --
    itiner-e.org/ <-- shared itiner-e.org Roman Roads web map
    --
    itiner-e.org/about <-- shared itiner-e.org overview and description of data downloads, etc
    --
    youtu.be/OTSe7MsJXbo?si=T7shjF <-- shared video overview, Travel the Roads of the Roman Empire on itiner-e.org
    --
    “… “All roads lead to Rome.” Everyone knows the adage. But according to new research [link above]…, the ancient Roman Empire’s sprawling highways weren’t as connected to the Eternal City, or quite as sophisticated, as that saying and other commonly held notions about them suggest.
    “All roads lead to Rome? They are all straight? We still walk Roman roads in the region today? These are widely held assumptions, even among academics,”[said one of the authors.]
    Such claims have prevented historians from interrogating the Roman road system [they also said, 3rd link above] “We just assume that Rome was at the center of a spider’s web of roads, and that’s simply not true.”
    Last year, [they] created a digital, publicly accessible map of the Roman Empire’s nearly 190,000 miles of roads in 150 C.E. For their recent study, the researchers analyzed topographical data and historical context to make judgments about that network…”
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  5. Researchers Have Analyzed The Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network Of Roads. Turns Out, Not All Of Them Led To Rome
    (for a new study, archaeologists attempted to answer age-old questions about Rome’s roads, including how connected the capital was and whether current motorways trace Roman routes)
    --
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared technical article
    --
    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-754 <-- shared paper
    --
    newscientist.com/article/25893 <-- shared technical article
    --
    thetimes.com/uk/science/articl <-- shared media article
    --
    doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17122148 <-- shared (Zendo) open data access, ‘A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire: Itiner-e’ static version 2024 (#GPKG, #GeoJSON and SHP)
    --
    itiner-e.org/ <-- shared itiner-e.org Roman Roads web map
    --
    itiner-e.org/about <-- shared itiner-e.org overview and description of data downloads, etc
    --
    youtu.be/OTSe7MsJXbo?si=T7shjF <-- shared video overview, Travel the Roads of the Roman Empire on itiner-e.org
    --
    “… “All roads lead to Rome.” Everyone knows the adage. But according to new research [link above]…, the ancient Roman Empire’s sprawling highways weren’t as connected to the Eternal City, or quite as sophisticated, as that saying and other commonly held notions about them suggest.
    “All roads lead to Rome? They are all straight? We still walk Roman roads in the region today? These are widely held assumptions, even among academics,”[said one of the authors.]
    Such claims have prevented historians from interrogating the Roman road system [they also said, 3rd link above] “We just assume that Rome was at the center of a spider’s web of roads, and that’s simply not true.”
    Last year, [they] created a digital, publicly accessible map of the Roman Empire’s nearly 190,000 miles of roads in 150 C.E. For their recent study, the researchers analyzed topographical data and historical context to make judgments about that network…”
    #history #ancienthistory #Rome #roads #romanroads #mapping #spatialanalysis #webmap #opendata #Itiner-e #RomanEmpire #infrastructure #archaeology #connections #network #routing #highways #topography #elevation #grade #settlements #community #culture #cities #towns #commerce #trade #spatial #GIS #mapping #mobility #empire #military #modernday #roads #equivalency #slope #sinuosity #density #kernaldensity #statistics #geostatistics #regression #centrality #ports #riverine #maritime #trade #shipping

  6. Good flamin' grief! I just emailed Cadw, the heritage quango of the Welsh government, about deliberate damage to a scheduled monument - a criminal offence.

    Cadw (which falls under, erm, Transport for Wales - eh?) and their customer support person told me "it's a private site and so nothing to do with us".

    Er... scheduled site. Welsh Government heritage body. Almost every scheduled site is on private land.

    I mean, the whole system's just utterly broken.

    #heritage #archaeology #cymru #wales

  7. Good flamin' grief! I just emailed Cadw, the heritage quango of the Welsh government, about deliberate damage to a scheduled monument - a criminal offence.

    Cadw (which falls under, erm, Transport for Wales - eh?) and their customer support person told me "it's a private site and so nothing to do with us".

    Er... scheduled site. Welsh Government heritage body. Almost every scheduled site is on private land.

    I mean, the whole system's just utterly broken.

    #heritage #archaeology #cymru #wales

  8. Good flamin' grief! I just emailed Cadw, the heritage quango of the Welsh government, about deliberate damage to a scheduled monument - a criminal offence.

    Cadw (which falls under, erm, Transport for Wales - eh?) and their customer support person told me "it's a private site and so nothing to do with us".

    Er... scheduled site. Welsh Government heritage body. Almost every scheduled site is on private land.

    I mean, the whole system's just utterly broken.

    #heritage #archaeology #cymru #wales

  9. Good flamin' grief! I just emailed Cadw, the heritage quango of the Welsh government, about deliberate damage to a scheduled monument - a criminal offence.

    Cadw (which falls under, erm, Transport for Wales - eh?) and their customer support person told me "it's a private site and so nothing to do with us".

    Er... scheduled site. Welsh Government heritage body. Almost every scheduled site is on private land.

    I mean, the whole system's just utterly broken.

    #heritage #archaeology #cymru #wales

  10. Good flamin' grief! I just emailed Cadw, the heritage quango of the Welsh government, about deliberate damage to a scheduled monument - a criminal offence.

    Cadw (which falls under, erm, Transport for Wales - eh?) and their customer support person told me "it's a private site and so nothing to do with us".

    Er... scheduled site. Welsh Government heritage body. Almost every scheduled site is on private land.

    I mean, the whole system's just utterly broken.

    #heritage #archaeology #cymru #wales

  11. Tasmanian devils lived in outback Western Australia for at least 45,000 years

    Tasmanian devils once lived across much of mainland Australia. New fossil evidence now places these animals in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for the first time. The evidence comes from Juukan 2 rockshelter on Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Country...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/tas

    Follow @archaeology

  12. Tasmanian devils lived in outback Western Australia for at least 45,000 years

    Tasmanian devils once lived across much of mainland Australia. New fossil evidence now places these animals in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for the first time. The evidence comes from Juukan 2 rockshelter on Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Country...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/tas

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #zooarchaeology #fossil #tasmaniandevil

  13. Tasmanian devils lived in outback Western Australia for at least 45,000 years

    Tasmanian devils once lived across much of mainland Australia. New fossil evidence now places these animals in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for the first time. The evidence comes from Juukan 2 rockshelter on Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Country...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/tas

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #zooarchaeology #fossil #tasmaniandevil

  14. Tasmanian devils lived in outback Western Australia for at least 45,000 years

    Tasmanian devils once lived across much of mainland Australia. New fossil evidence now places these animals in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for the first time. The evidence comes from Juukan 2 rockshelter on Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Country...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/tas

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #zooarchaeology #fossil #tasmaniandevil

  15. Tasmanian devils lived in outback Western Australia for at least 45,000 years

    Tasmanian devils once lived across much of mainland Australia. New fossil evidence now places these animals in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for the first time. The evidence comes from Juukan 2 rockshelter on Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Country...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/tas

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #zooarchaeology #fossil #tasmaniandevil

  16. Deadline for paper submissions for #CAA2027 is the 1st of October!

    Track 3 explores regional perspectives, with a particular focus on the Americas, South and South-East Asia.

    2027.caaconference.org/call-for-pap...

    #archaeology #callforpapers #conference #digitalarchaeology #digitalheritage

  17. Deadline for paper submissions for #CAA2027 is the 1st of October!

    Track 3 explores regional perspectives, with a particular focus on the Americas, South and South-East Asia.

    2027.caaconference.org/call-for-pap...

    #archaeology #callforpapers #conference #digitalarchaeology #digitalheritage

  18. Deadline for paper submissions for #CAA2027 is the 1st of October!

    Track 3 explores regional perspectives, with a particular focus on the Americas, South and South-East Asia.

    2027.caaconference.org/call-for-pap...

    #archaeology #callforpapers #conference #digitalarchaeology #digitalheritage

  19. Deadline for paper submissions for #CAA2027 is the 1st of October!

    Track 3 explores regional perspectives, with a particular focus on the Americas, South and South-East Asia.

    2027.caaconference.org/call-for-pap...

    #archaeology #callforpapers #conference #digitalarchaeology #digitalheritage

  20. Deadline for paper submissions for #CAA2027 is the 1st of October!

    Track 3 explores regional perspectives, with a particular focus on the Americas, South and South-East Asia.

    2027.caaconference.org/call-for-pap...

    #archaeology #callforpapers #conference #digitalarchaeology #digitalheritage

  21. Just added to my collection of, well, rather strange #archaeology souvenirs: crocheted T-pillar. 🤔😄

  22. Just added to my collection of, well, rather strange #archaeology souvenirs: crocheted T-pillar. 🤔😄

  23. Just added to my collection of, well, rather strange #archaeology souvenirs: crocheted T-pillar. 🤔😄

  24. Just added to my collection of, well, rather strange #archaeology souvenirs: crocheted T-pillar. 🤔😄

  25. Just added to my collection of, well, rather strange #archaeology souvenirs: crocheted T-pillar. 🤔😄

  26. 📢 Worth your abstract: ConTrA 2027 – Reconstructing Antiquity, Cologne, 19 Feb 2027.

    The first edition in April 2026 had a board game keynote and four of seven papers on games. This is not a token games slot 🎲🎮

    A volume is in preparation with Archaeopress.

    Deadline: 15 Nov 2026, 400 words.

    My write-up 👇
    itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/09/

    #Archaeogaming #Archaeology #GameStudies #Antiquity

  27. 📢 Worth your abstract: ConTrA 2027 – Reconstructing Antiquity, Cologne, 19 Feb 2027.

    The first edition in April 2026 had a board game keynote and four of seven papers on games. This is not a token games slot 🎲🎮

    A volume is in preparation with Archaeopress.

    Deadline: 15 Nov 2026, 400 words.

    My write-up 👇
    itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/09/

    #Archaeogaming #Archaeology #GameStudies #Antiquity

  28. 📢 Worth your abstract: ConTrA 2027 – Reconstructing Antiquity, Cologne, 19 Feb 2027.

    The first edition in April 2026 had a board game keynote and four of seven papers on games. This is not a token games slot 🎲🎮

    A volume is in preparation with Archaeopress.

    Deadline: 15 Nov 2026, 400 words.

    My write-up 👇
    itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/09/

    #Archaeogaming #Archaeology #GameStudies #Antiquity

  29. 📢 Worth your abstract: ConTrA 2027 – Reconstructing Antiquity, Cologne, 19 Feb 2027.

    The first edition in April 2026 had a board game keynote and four of seven papers on games. This is not a token games slot 🎲🎮

    A volume is in preparation with Archaeopress.

    Deadline: 15 Nov 2026, 400 words.

    My write-up 👇
    itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/09/

    #Archaeogaming #Archaeology #GameStudies #Antiquity

  30. 📢 Worth your abstract: ConTrA 2027 – Reconstructing Antiquity, Cologne, 19 Feb 2027.

    The first edition in April 2026 had a board game keynote and four of seven papers on games. This is not a token games slot 🎲🎮

    A volume is in preparation with Archaeopress.

    Deadline: 15 Nov 2026, 400 words.

    My write-up 👇
    itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/09/

    #Archaeogaming #Archaeology #GameStudies #Antiquity