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A sweeping new study of the Roman Empire’s vast road network is challenging the age-old saying, “All roads lead to Rome.” The study, published Sept. 15 in the journal Nature Communications, analyzed roughly 190,000 miles of Roman roads spanning Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The team combined existing data to create a new map of the Roman Empire’s road network and analyze its structure on an empire-wide scale. The study’s lead researcher, Tom Brughmans, a classical archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, and his colleagues found that Rome was not uniquely central to the empire’s road network, with…

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