Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The Peutingeriana Tabula Itineraria, the first road map in history. It represents all the paths that lead to Rome in the first centuries from the confines of the Roman Empire, Gaul and the island of Brittany, to India via Mesopotamia or North Africa.



It is an aid intended mainly for the search for routes between two cities, especially since the indications of distance between two points on the network are given.














shows the entire Roman Empire , the Near East and India , indicating the Ganges and Sri Lanka ( Insula Taprobane ), and even China is mentioned.

For the best look at a piece of it, click on the following for a full size image


http://blog.kermorvan.fr/2020/04/05/tous-les-chemins/
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_de_Peutinger
https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost03/Tabula/tab_pe00.html

8 comments:

  1. I didn't know this excited. This is the coolest thing, a road map of the ancient empire. Wish i had a time machine. I imagine many of those roads are still there.

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    1. Some of them are, see the 6th image from the top of this link https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=roman .
      Oh wow, the mind really boggles at the idea of a time machine.
      Do you recall the tv show in the mid 80s, "Voyagers" ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyagers!
      The characters had a handheld time machine gadget, but lost the operators manual in the first episode

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    2. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/05/2300-year-old-roman-road-in-italy.html for another.
      I suppose a lot of those roads were destroyed in WW1 and WW2, but some do survive

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    3. Now that you mention it. I vaguely remember the TV show Voyagers. I may have only caught one or two episodes of that show. I'll see if it's one You tube. Also your post on the 2300 year old Roman I remember now, and how very "in the moment shot", the picture is. I'm wondering if that road was once part of the Appian Way? The old brick structure and the stone wall off to the left of the photo makes me want to know what they were part of at one time. Good stuff. Thanks Jesse.

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  2. That is fascinating, thanks I had never seen that before. All roads did lead to Rome.

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    1. you've forgotten http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/01/all-roads-in-europe-actually-do-lead-to.html
      And I'd never heard of or seen this thing before... but I came across this website last night, it's a lot like TYWKIWDBI blog http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/ a delight of the unusual.
      Well, then again, I'd like to think i'm in that catagory, to a lesser extent

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    2. I don't know how I missed that one. The roads on that map look like the venation on a leaf.

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    3. Oh, you probably saw it but didn't notice much about it at the time. It's exactly like you say, the veins on a leaf, damn, that is a great analogy!
      I wonder how many centuries the Romans were building roads for? How many slaves they had building roads, to be accurate

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