Roaman road near Ambrussum, southern Gaul
Scientific journal Nature has just published a high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire by an international group of academics that suggests a much more extensive Road network than we could have imagined.
The new map – an online database called Itiner-e – has been compiled […]
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The Roman Empire in 395 at the death of Theodosius (Map: Geuiwogbil at the English Wikipedia)
In 1984, a German academic, Alexander Demandt, published a book, Der Fall Roms, and he listed 210 reasons for the fall of Rome in the West.
Barbarians inside and outside the empire, Christianity, […]
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A recent post in The Economist magazine congratulated Francis Spufford whose Cahokia Jazz won this year’s long-form class of the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History. The Economist went on to state: “The what-if genre of fiction is growing fast, with work of startling quality and originality. [Cahokia Jazz is] A noir thriller that takes […]
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