Well, for some values of "comprehensive" and "all":
The study published earlier this week mapped out the roads into what the Roman network could have looked like at the peak of the empire's power, sometime between the 2nd to 4th centuries AD. That network of main roads and little countryside paths didn't centralize in Rome, though. Tom Brughmans, classical archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark and one of the leads on the project, told Reuters that, "...when we consider all movement within the entire Italian peninsula, we were shocked to discover that the most central road actually follows the opposite Adriatic coastline, bypassing Rome altogether."
It is said that history is 90% n geography and 10% common sense. It would make no sense at all for traffic from Hispania to Syria to be routed to Rome. The direct route goes via Constantinople:
Hopefully Stanford's Orbis will be updated to include the new found roads. We've seen Orbis here before.
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And they are ALL still more drivable than ones installed by government DOT crews within the last decade.
Well of course!
NONE of them were made by DEI!!!
"Through Constantinople" -- or you could take the south coastal route, Numidia, to Egypt, and up. Give your respect to the bishop at Hippo Regius on the way.
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