Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...
How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, anyone can ...
Archaeologists have long treated Rome’s roads as a marvel of ancient engineering, but new digital mapping shows the network ...
A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. By Franz Lidz The apostle Paul traveled widely across the Roman Empire to spread the ...
They say all roads lead to Rome—but exactly how many Roman roads were there? According to new research, potentially over 68,000 miles (over 110,000 kilometers) more than previously known. Meet ...
Twenty feature points were selected on the constructed 2D road network map (Ahmed’s method, Figure 11a) and 3D road network map (paper method, Figure 11b) and used for quantitative evaluation of ...
All roads may have once led to Rome — but those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published this week. The study, called Itiner-e, mapped nearly ...
A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...
To address the trade-off between accuracy and cross-city generalization in traffic flow estimation, a research team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and New York University proposes a novel ...
A groundbreaking study using satellite data and an artificial intelligence algorithm shows how the spread of unofficial roads throughout the Amazon is driving widespread deforestation. One such road ...