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<p>The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. Yet, it remains incompletely mapped and poorly integrated across sources despite centuries of research. We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories. The dataset nearly doubles the known length of Roman roads through increased coverage and spatial precision, and reveals that the location of only 2.737% are known with certainty. This resource is transformative for understanding how mobility shaped connectivity, administration, and even disease transmission in the ancient world, and for studies of the millennia-long development of terrestrial mobility in the region.</p>

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Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

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    2025年11月6日

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  • Pau de Soto,
  • Adam Pažout,
  • Tom Brughmans,
  • Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup,
  • Álvaro Auir,
  • Toon Bongers,
  • Jens Emil Bødstrup Christoffersen,
  • Maël Crépy,
  • Mathias Holland Johansen,
  • Joseph Lewis,
  • Louis Manière,
  • Michele Rüzgar Massa,
  • Louise Matilde Harreby Møller,
  • Bérangère Redon,
  • Giuseppina Renda,
  • Hamdi Şahin,
  • Adéla Sobotková,
  • Amanda Leighton Spatzek,
  • Philip Verhagen,
  • Barbora Weissova

摘要

The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. Yet, it remains incompletely mapped and poorly integrated across sources despite centuries of research. We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories. The dataset nearly doubles the known length of Roman roads through increased coverage and spatial precision, and reveals that the location of only 2.737% are known with certainty. This resource is transformative for understanding how mobility shaped connectivity, administration, and even disease transmission in the ancient world, and for studies of the millennia-long development of terrestrial mobility in the region.