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New digital project maps 300,000 km of historic Roman Empire roads

2025-11-11 08:46:00, Tech CNA

New digital project maps 300,000 km of historic Roman Empire roads

A new digital project called "Itiner-e" has achieved what seemed impossible, mapping with unprecedented accuracy 299,171 kilometers of Roman roads, almost double the 188,555 km collected from the most complete digital sources to date.

The result not only doubles our cartographic knowledge of Roman roads, but transforms our understanding of how the Roman Empire functioned, how legions moved, how goods traveled, how imperial orders were transmitted, and how Rome built and maintained the greatest empire of antiquity for centuries.

This ambitious work, led by researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Aarhus University in Denmark, is published in the Nature journal Scientific Data. It represents the most comprehensive synthesis of centuries of archaeological and historical research.

The result is 14,769 road segments organized in a two-level hierarchy:

Main roads (103,477.9 km, 34.58% of the total) documented by kilometer markers or historical sources, which structured the imperial administration and army.

Secondary roads (195,693.3 km, 65.42%), revealing local and regional mobility.

The project has also generated maps that visualize where data is missing and where future research can be focused on expanding mapped routes./CNA





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