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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Main Via Flaminia in blue, later central alternative in pink and ‘branch line’ (Via Septempeda) in orange (CC licence source EH101)
‘All roads lead to Rome‘.
Actually, a fair number do, but it seems the saying wasn’t recorded as being coined by the Romans themselves. Of course, the Romans may well have said […]
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Roman relief depicting a travelling wagon (raeda) from a tomb from Virunum, Zollfeld, Austria
Drafting my new Roma Nova story set in the fourth century is slow, glacially slow at times. I know Roma Nova, I know its ‘history’, but when you get down to the nitty gritty of writing in a time […]
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