Roman roads
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Roman roads were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and, later,
Combined data from the Peutinger Table and Antonine Itinerary recording the Roman roads network.
The Appian Way, one of the oldest and most important Roman roads
Old Roman road, leading from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, adjacent to regional highway 375 in Israel
Section of the Via delle Gallie (Valle d'Aosta) in Italy, built by excavating the steep rock slope at left
Tabula Peutingeriana
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Tabula Peutingeriana, also known as Peutinger's Tabula, Peutinger tables and Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the road network of the Roman Emp
Roman roads
…step from lists to a master list, or a schematic route-planner in which roads and their branches were represented more or less in parallel, as in the Tabula Peutingeriana. From this master list, parts could be copied and sold on the streets. The most thorough used different symbols for cities, way stations, water courses…
Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast
Rome (from a facsimile)
A modern version of the Roman Tabula Peutingeriana, without the reconstructed British and Iberian panel in the west to India in the east. (Konrad Miller, 1887)