Itiner-e : A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
De Soto, Pau (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Pažout, Adam (Aarhus University (Dinamarca). Department of History and Classical Studies)
Brughmans, Tom (Aarhus University (Dinamarca). Department of History and Classical Studies)
Vahlstrup, Peter Bjerregaard (Aarhus University (Dinamarca). Center for Humanities Computing)
Auir, Álvaro (Universitat de Barcelona)
Bongers, Toon (Department of History, Ghent, Belgium)
Christoffersen, Jens Emil Bødstrup (Aarhus University (Dinamarca))
Crépy, Maël (French National Centre for Scientific Research, HiSoMA Research Center (UMR 5189), Lyon, France)
Johansen, Mathias Holland (Gothenburg university, Department of history, Gothenburg, Sweden)
Lewis, Joseph (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Manière, Louis (French National Centre for Scientific Research, HiSoMA Research Center (UMR 5189), Lyon, France)
Massa, Michele Rüzgar (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
Møller, Louise Matilde Harreby (Aarhus University (Dinamarca))
Redon, Bérangère (French National Centre for Scientific Research, HiSoMA Research Center (UMR 5189), Lyon, France)
Renda, Giuseppina (Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy)
Şahin, Hamdi (Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Sobotková, Adéla (Aarhus University (Dinamarca). Department of History and Classical Studies)
Spatzek, Amanda Leighton (Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark)
Verhagen, Philip (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Weissova, Barbora (Institute of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Prague, Czechia)

Data:	2025
Resum:	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.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Archaeology ; History
Publicat a:	Scientific data, Vol. 12 Núm. 1 (2025) , art 1731, ISSN 2052-4463

DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-06140-z
PMID: 41198717

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