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New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire
https://itiner-e.org/ https://itiner-e.org/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z
- syx 5mo agoLink to the actual atlas built by the group [1] [1] https://itiner-e.org/ https://itiner-e.org/
- cladopa 5mo agooh man, what a horrible infographic. Please listen to Isaac Moreno Gallo. 99% of the Roman Roads had no big stones on it. Only near big cities you have the stone pavement, basically in the cemetery that was outside town alongside the road. People with very little idea about engineering wrote the textbooks of the past and some of the wrong ideas are transmitted even today.
- dang 5mo agoRelated. Others? Itiner-e: the Google Maps of Roman Roads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864341 - Nov 2025 (42 comments) Also: Roman Roads (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597216 - June 2024 (157 comments) Subway-style maps of roads of the Roman Empire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781879 - July 2020 (27 comments) 'Lost' Roads of Ancient Rome Discovered with 3D Laser Scanners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11094744 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11094744 - Feb 2016 (5 comments)
- reaperducer 5mo agoIf they're mapped, by definition, they're not lost.
- lukan 5mo agoHaving knowledge in theory, somewhere and having knowledge avaiable where people can access it, is not the same thing. In other words, maybe unneccesary pedantry?
- NooneAtAll3 5mo agoI mean... they are lost no more
- alsetmusic 5mo agoThis is one of my favorite categories of articles: a significant expansion of our understanding of the past. History is so exciting and it's a horrible shame that the experience of high school history classes teaches students the opposite. I wish more HS teachers knew how to make the subject engaging. On this in particular, someone linked to a map of the roads of the Roman Empire created in the style of modern transportation maps (think subways) a few years ago. I paid five bucks (I think, might have been more) for a high quality version of the file suitable for printing. I have a giant print of it framed on the wall. It's one of my favorite things because it's such a clever crossover of historical timelines. The person I paid for it (blog owner) was surprised that I found it. They thought that they had removed it from their blog and asked me how I got to it so it could be removed. I didn't check to confirm, just letting you know you likely can't get the file anymore and I didn't create it so I won't share it. Sorry for teasing it when you can't get your own. It's pretty great. Edit: spelling / tense
- julian_t 5mo agoMaybe something like this? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/roman-empires-roads-map/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/roman-empires-roads-map/
- bookofjoe 5mo ago>The person I paid for it (blog owner) was surprised that I found it. They thought that they had removed it from their blog and asked me how I got to it so it could be removed. I would have been flattered someone liked it enough to pay for it rather than removing it.
- coolcoder613 5mo agohttps://archive.md/8jQ6G https://archive.md/8jQ6G
- PeterStuer 5mo agoIs it only the major roads? It does not seem to include the secondary, but stiil substantial, Roman roads, at least not for my area.
- suddenlybananas 5mo agoA lot of the roads are basically pure speculation. If you zoom in anywhere in the south of France, the roads are just the local highways (yes some highways are repurposed from the Roman roads but the order is backwards here; there's a highway thus there is a Roman road)
- pigeons 5mo ago"All roads lead to Rome."