Here is the result of a huge project verrry useful for Ars sagas:
It takes time to load, but shows the Roman roads researched so far.
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That’ s very cool, it’s a shame that most of the Rhine Tribunal lies outside of the network, because I would otherwise switch to using this instead of googlemaps to calculate distances.
Calculating distances without having a stable road system is in many ways "handwaving": "How do I get to ...?" "That way!"
There is also this one https://orbis.stanford.edu/. Itiner-e seems to have a more complete road system, while Orbis mostly shows the main roman roads, but Orbis includes the sea road, but I find its travel calculation pathing more intuitive. Thanks for the link.
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Very cool and extremely useful. Quite interesting to see that the romans built so many roads in what is now desert in North Africa and the middle East. But clearly must have not been for them in the past to be economically worthwhile.
Yeah, that's known natural climate change over the last few thousand years. The Sahara is still growing. I went to an early Islamic hunting lodge in eastern Jordan: rocky desert for a hundred miles in every direction. (And that was only something like 800 years, not 2000.)
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Yeah - it’s a mix of pastoral grazing habits, water management (the complete lack of), uncontrolled deforestation, and (natural) climate change from what I understand.
Oh yeah, those also sound plausible.