Resources/Jul 12, 2013

ORBIS

ORBIS lead image

Sea routes in July, with coastal routes in blue and overseas routes in green. Source: Orbis

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It broadly reflects conditions around 200 CE but also covers a few sites and roads created in late antiquity.