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Londinium to Roma: an online map of the Roman Empire's roads

A new online map has come online and while it can not give you directions for driving your car from Rome to Paris, it can tell you how long it will take you to get from Roma to Lutetia in an ox cart (the answer: 755 hours). Itiner-e is a digital map of the estimated 300,000 kilometres of roads built by the Roman Empire.

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