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O ne thousand kilometres from the ochre rock and limitless lakes where the Hudson’s Bay Company ( HBC) once held dominion over a territory four times larger than the Holy Roman Empire, what’s left of ...

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A new digital map presents the vast Roman road network. Photo of part of ancient Via Egnatia in Kavala, Greece. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer CC BY-SA 3.0 A new digital, interactive map reveals the vast ...

Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...