Relevant paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z (Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire)

This is my favorite type of hacker news content. Something really cool that I never would have stumbled upon myself.

I'm really surprised how built-up Gaul and Germany are here

If you like interesting and the occasional link fest rabbit-hole, have you seen metafilter?

And as I suspected, this was seen on Metafilter 11/6, the day before:

https://www.metafilter.com/210946/Interactive-Map-of-Every-K...