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Revolutionary research reveals the most comprehensive digital atlas of Roman roads ever created, dramatically expanding our understanding of the Empire's vast infrastructure. The new dataset, named Itiner-e, increases the known road network by over 100,000 kilometers and provides unprecedented detail about transportation routes that connected millions across three continents, now available for anyone to explore online. At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an extensive network of roads facilitated the Empire's development and maintenance, previous digitizations remained incomplete and lacked the resolution needed for detailed study. The new research, led by Tom Brughmans from Aarhus University, Pau