Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
the map Romans used to plan trips
The Peutinger map distorts geography the same way the tube map does: it only cares about the order of stops and the distances between them.
6 sources · 47 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “roman road map”
- Ended at
- Milestone
The Trail
- “roman road map” (google.com)
- Roman roads (en.wikipedia.org)
- Appian Way (en.wikipedia.org)
- Tabula Peutingeriana (en.wikipedia.org)
a 7 m long scroll map. it's basically a subway diagram of the empire
- Antonine Itinerary (en.wikipedia.org)
- Milestone (en.wikipedia.org)
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