#romanroads — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #romanroads, aggregated by home.social.
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🗺️ Wow, breaking news! Scientists have discovered that Roman roads existed all over the Empire! Who would have thought? 🏛️ This revolutionary map has doubled our understanding of roads—turns out those Romans weren't just wandering aimlessly through history! 🚶♂️🔍
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-high-resolution-map-transforms-what-we-know-about-roman-roads-and-the-roman-empire/ #RomanRoads #HistoryMapping #Archaeology #Discoveries #AncientRome #HackerNews #ngated -
🗺️ Wow, breaking news! Scientists have discovered that Roman roads existed all over the Empire! Who would have thought? 🏛️ This revolutionary map has doubled our understanding of roads—turns out those Romans weren't just wandering aimlessly through history! 🚶♂️🔍
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-high-resolution-map-transforms-what-we-know-about-roman-roads-and-the-roman-empire/ #RomanRoads #HistoryMapping #Archaeology #Discoveries #AncientRome #HackerNews #ngated -
Principal Routes of the Roman Road Network. By 125 CE, the Roman Empire had built one of the most advanced and extensive road systems in the ancient world. Stretching over 400,000 kilometers, Roman roads connected major cities, military bases, and trade centers across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The Roman road network played a major role in spreading culture, commerce, and ideas throughout the empire. #RomanEmpire #RomanRoads #AncientHistory #HistoricalMaps #RomanEngineering #WorldHistory #AncientInfrastructure #RomanCivilization #125CE
Posted into The Road to Rome @the-road-to-rome-curiouscurator
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The Roman Fossway, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, 1909 - Clift & Ryland Postcard
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The Roman Fossway, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, 1909 - Clift & Ryland Postcard
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Truly remarhkable. Zooming into and out of the map, and looking at places I know from my personal life, makes the vastness of this system tangible.
I checked out various places where I have worked or studied. As a student in Cambridge, I rented a room in an Old Rectory in a village near Cambridge, and this house was directly by the old Roman road that leaves Cambridge northwards. In Germany, our home in the hills above Frankfurt was very close to a Roman road, at the extreme edge of the empire, just a few miles out from one of the Roman border forts. In Israel, the Kibbutz I worked in as a young man, north of Sea of Galilee, also was located directly at the place of a Roman road.
A vast area spanning over three continents, countless micro-cosms all interconnected by a single, well-maintained system. Stunning.
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Truly remarhkable. Zooming into and out of the map, and looking at places I know from my personal life, makes the vastness of this system tangible.
I checked out various places where I have worked or studied. As a student in Cambridge, I rented a room in an Old Rectory in a village near Cambridge, and this house was directly by the old Roman road that leaves Cambridge northwards. In Germany, our home in the hills above Frankfurt was very close to a Roman road, at the extreme edge of the empire, just a few miles out from one of the Roman border forts. In Israel, the Kibbutz I worked in as a young man, north of Sea of Galilee, also was located directly at the place of a Roman road.
A vast area spanning over three continents, countless micro-cosms all interconnected by a single, well-maintained system. Stunning.
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For map nerds everywhere, fabulous interactive route planner of the Roman empire. The map includes nearly 300,000 kilometres of roads existing in around ad 150, when the empire was at its maximum territorial extent.
#Maps #RomanEmpire #RomanRoads
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
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For map nerds everywhere, fabulous interactive route planner of the Roman empire. The map includes nearly 300,000 kilometres of roads existing in around ad 150, when the empire was at its maximum territorial extent.
#Maps #RomanEmpire #RomanRoads
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
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Have you always wanted a route planner like Google Maps for the good old Roman times around 2000ys ago?
Then take a look at this amazing research project by a team from several universities led by Tom Brughmans from Aarhus University. Part of the project was the development of such a route planner.
Now you can easily find out for example how long it took to travel the fastest way (🏇) from historic Verona to Lutetia (now Paris): only 172 hours 😁
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Have you always wanted a route planner like Google Maps for the good old Roman times around 2000ys ago?
Then take a look at this amazing research project by a team from several universities led by Tom Brughmans from Aarhus University. Part of the project was the development of such a route planner.
Now you can easily find out for example how long it took to travel the fastest way (🏇) from historic Verona to Lutetia (now Paris): only 172 hours 😁
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Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z
#OpenAccess #RomanEmpire #RomanRoads #Archaeology #Maps -
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z
#OpenAccess #RomanEmpire #RomanRoads #Archaeology #Maps -
LOOK, LOOK!!!
New map shows over 110,000 kilometers MORE of Roman roads than were previously known!
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🚀 A groundbreaking revelation: Roman roads existed! 🏛️ Let's throw some GIS at it and call it a day. 🤦♂️ Next, maybe they'll use AI to prove water is wet. 🌊
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02175-w #RomanRoads #GISInnovation #AIResearch #GroundbreakingDiscovery #HumorInScience #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 A groundbreaking revelation: Roman roads existed! 🏛️ Let's throw some GIS at it and call it a day. 🤦♂️ Next, maybe they'll use AI to prove water is wet. 🌊
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02175-w #RomanRoads #GISInnovation #AIResearch #GroundbreakingDiscovery #HumorInScience #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the Roman Roads Research Association's groundbreaking exposé: "403 Forbidden" 🚫—a masterclass in ancient road research, guarded by the impenetrable fortress of LiteSpeed! 🏰 Because who wouldn't want their scholarly intrigue behind a digital drawbridge? 🔐🚧
https://www.romanroads.org/ #RomanRoads #AncientResearch #LiteSpeed #DigitalSecurity #ScholarlyIntrigue #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the Roman Roads Research Association's groundbreaking exposé: "403 Forbidden" 🚫—a masterclass in ancient road research, guarded by the impenetrable fortress of LiteSpeed! 🏰 Because who wouldn't want their scholarly intrigue behind a digital drawbridge? 🔐🚧
https://www.romanroads.org/ #RomanRoads #AncientResearch #LiteSpeed #DigitalSecurity #ScholarlyIntrigue #HackerNews #ngated -
The Roman Roads Research Association
#HackerNews #RomanRoads #Research #Association #History #Archaeology #AncientRome
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The Roman Roads Research Association
#HackerNews #RomanRoads #Research #Association #History #Archaeology #AncientRome
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Stane street looking beautiful with a light veil of mist yesterday morning
Hope everyone is having a great Christmas morning! -
Stane street looking beautiful with a light veil of mist yesterday morning
Hope everyone is having a great Christmas morning! -
Roman roads animation in Latin with English subtitles
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #style #subway #roman #roads #romanroads #history #ancienthistory #romanempire #rome #transportation -
Roman roads animation in Latin with English subtitles
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #style #subway #roman #roads #romanroads #history #ancienthistory #romanempire #rome #transportation -
The Roads Of Ancient Rome Visualized In The Style Of Modern Subway Maps
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https://sashamaps.net/docs/maps/roman-roads-original/ <-- shared cartography article
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads <-- Roman roads wikipedia page
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #style #subway #roman #roads #romanroads #history #ancienthistory #romanempire #rome #transportation #routing -
The Roads Of Ancient Rome Visualized In The Style Of Modern Subway Maps
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https://sashamaps.net/docs/maps/roman-roads-original/ <-- shared cartography article
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads <-- Roman roads wikipedia page
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #style #subway #roman #roads #romanroads #history #ancienthistory #romanempire #rome #transportation #routing -
The World As They Knew It - The Legacy Of Greco-Roman Mapmaking
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https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/legacy-of-greco-roman-mapmaking.html <-- shared media article
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https://isaw.nyu.edu/ <-- Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #surveying #history #ancienthistory #cartography #mapmaking #Rome #Greece #AncientRome #Roman #Greek #AncientGreece #solarsystem #measurements #antiquity #milestones #romanroads #geometry #earth #longitude #latitude -
The World As They Knew It - The Legacy Of Greco-Roman Mapmaking
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https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/legacy-of-greco-roman-mapmaking.html <-- shared media article
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https://isaw.nyu.edu/ <-- Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #surveying #history #ancienthistory #cartography #mapmaking #Rome #Greece #AncientRome #Roman #Greek #AncientGreece #solarsystem #measurements #antiquity #milestones #romanroads #geometry #earth #longitude #latitude -
Archaeologists Identify Roman Road Network [LiDAR]
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https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/archaeologists-identify-roman-road-network/148177 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.109 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #landscape #history #romanhistory #romanroads #archaeology #roads #transportation #ancientroads #UK #Britian #England #Devon #Cornwall #SouthWest #spatialanalysis #gischat #LeastCostPaths #MADO #CMTC #floodprone #grade #roadnetwork #Medieval -
Archaeologists Identify Roman Road Network [LiDAR]
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https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/archaeologists-identify-roman-road-network/148177 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.109 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #landscape #history #romanhistory #romanroads #archaeology #roads #transportation #ancientroads #UK #Britian #England #Devon #Cornwall #SouthWest #spatialanalysis #gischat #LeastCostPaths #MADO #CMTC #floodprone #grade #roadnetwork #Medieval -
CW: Long thread/7
#5yrsago FTC orders manufacturers to cut it out with the unenforceable “#WarrantyVoidIfRemoved” stickers https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne9qdq/warranty-void-if-removed-stickers-illegal-ftc
#5yrsago #Facebook quietly admits they let #CambridgeAnalytica read your private messages https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-private-facebook-messages/
#5yrsago The other class war: technocrats vs plutocrats https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/kevin-williamson-atlantic-ideological-diversity/
#5yrsago Public goods are REALLY good: thousands of years later, the #RomanRoads are still paying dividends https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/roman-roads-and-sources-persistence-and-non-persistence-development
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CW: Long thread/7
#5yrsago FTC orders manufacturers to cut it out with the unenforceable “#WarrantyVoidIfRemoved” stickers https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne9qdq/warranty-void-if-removed-stickers-illegal-ftc
#5yrsago #Facebook quietly admits they let #CambridgeAnalytica read your private messages https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-private-facebook-messages/
#5yrsago The other class war: technocrats vs plutocrats https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/kevin-williamson-atlantic-ideological-diversity/
#5yrsago Public goods are REALLY good: thousands of years later, the #RomanRoads are still paying dividends https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/roman-roads-and-sources-persistence-and-non-persistence-development
7/
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New Evidence Of A Roman Road In The Venice Lagoon (Italy) Based On High Resolution Seafloor Reconstruction
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92939-w <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Venice #Italy #roads #romanroad #transport #romanroads #paleobeach #roman #archeology #venezia #submerged #bathymetry #remotesensing #marine #lagoon #treportichannel #venicelagoon #seafloor #diving #scubadiving #artifacts #geoarchaeology #model #modeling #reconstruction #transportation #survey -
New Evidence Of A Roman Road In The Venice Lagoon (Italy) Based On High Resolution Seafloor Reconstruction
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92939-w <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Venice #Italy #roads #romanroad #transport #romanroads #paleobeach #roman #archeology #venezia #submerged #bathymetry #remotesensing #marine #lagoon #treportichannel #venicelagoon #seafloor #diving #scubadiving #artifacts #geoarchaeology #model #modeling #reconstruction #transportation #survey -
Roman Roads Are Still Connecting Europe’s Wealthiest Areas [spatial analysis]
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https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/roman-roads-wealth-today/ <-- article
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https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/omnesviae-roman-roads-map/ <-- OmnesViae, GoogleMaps for Roman Roads
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2022.05.003 <-- paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #infrastructure #business #network #connections #economy #europe #military #economics #transportation #corrleation #spatialanalysis #remotesensing #satellite #imagery #Roman #romanempire #road #roads #ancient #urban #cities #city #OmnesViae #RomanRoads -
Roman Roads Are Still Connecting Europe’s Wealthiest Areas [spatial analysis]
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https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/roman-roads-wealth-today/ <-- article
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https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/omnesviae-roman-roads-map/ <-- OmnesViae, GoogleMaps for Roman Roads
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2022.05.003 <-- paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #infrastructure #business #network #connections #economy #europe #military #economics #transportation #corrleation #spatialanalysis #remotesensing #satellite #imagery #Roman #romanempire #road #roads #ancient #urban #cities #city #OmnesViae #RomanRoads -
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I see by way of a post by @lesleyemuir that Andrew Tibbs (Durham) will deliver an online lecture 24 Nov.: "Conquest: The Rivers and Roads of Flavian Scotland" 19:30 – 21:00 GMT (presented by the #RomanRoads Association). More info and to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conquest-the-rivers-and-roads-of-flavian-scotland-by-dr-andrew-tibbs-registration-464965713967
"... explore the role and function of roads and waterways in 1st century Scotland, how they were used by Roman military and what we really know about these today."
#ancientGeography #archaeology #RomanHistory #ancientHistory
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I see by way of a post by @lesleyemuir that Andrew Tibbs (Durham) will deliver an online lecture 24 Nov.: "Conquest: The Rivers and Roads of Flavian Scotland" 19:30 – 21:00 GMT (presented by the #RomanRoads Association). More info and to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conquest-the-rivers-and-roads-of-flavian-scotland-by-dr-andrew-tibbs-registration-464965713967
"... explore the role and function of roads and waterways in 1st century Scotland, how they were used by Roman military and what we really know about these today."
#ancientGeography #archaeology #RomanHistory #ancientHistory
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If any one is interested in #RomanRoads then there's a free talk from Andrew Tibbs (#RomanScotland chap) on Thursday 24th Nov. Sign up here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conquest-the-rivers-and-roads-of-flavian-scotland-by-dr-andrew-tibbs-registration-464965713967 If you can't make it, which I doubt I will as I'm at #Revs that day, you can catch up on YouTube afterwards