This week was a big one, as yesterday's Tinto Maps post was the grand heart of early modern Europe: The Holy Roman Empire. Historical strategy fans long knew that this would be an immense ...

Here are 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire — its rise and fall, its culture and economy, and how it laid the foundations of the modern world. 1) The rise and fall of Rome. Roke.

VIA ROMANA A new interactive map of the Roman Empire allows users to calculate costs in time and money for hundreds of river, road and sea routes. W. Scheidel and E. Meeks.

A map of the Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent in A.D. 565. ... The Eastern Roman Empire, ... A detailed Byzantine mosaic of Emperor Justinian with his retinue.

WE have received from the Ordnance Survey the Aberdeen sheet of the International Map of the Roman Empire on the scale of 1 to 1,000,000. The sheet covers the greater part of Scotland north of the ...

FOLLOWING CAESAR: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire. By John Keahey. St. Martin’s Press. 256 pages. $30.

Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors.

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman ...