The map above is tube / subway style map of the major Roman roads around 125 AD. It is the amazing work of Sasha Trubetskoy and is largely based off the ORBIS Model of the Roman World and The Pelagios Project .. Roman Roads This Summer, I studied abroad in Rome, as part of the Engineering Rome program. Our final project was to explore an engineering topic that relates in Rome in some way. I bounced around a couple topics, from arches, to accessibility in the city, and transportation, until I finally settled on a topic because I wanted to visit Via Appia Antica…roads!
An infographic illustrating the typical structure of Roman roads. It is believed that the Romans adopted the craft of road construction from the Etruscans, and as the empire grew, they incorporated.. At the zenith of the Roman Empire's growth, about 29 large military roadways radiated from Rome, and 372 great roads interconnected the late Roman Empire's 113 provinces. The whole covered more than 400 thousand km (250 thousand mi) of roads, of which above 80.5 thousand km (50 thousand mi) were stone-paved.