Visualization tool is the 'Google Maps' for Ancient Rome

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

A social media trend revealed a few years ago that men think about the Roman Empire, the most impressive one in human history, more often than they probably ever wanted to admit, because of things like the empire’s vastness, as well as architectural and infrastructure advancements.

Well, now, they have even more of a reason to think about it because a team of international researchers recently created a visualization tool called Itiner-e that allows users to virtually see a map of how the ancient Roman roads were once traveled in Europe, the Near East and North Africa.

The interactive map was created based on 200 years of research on the Roman roads. Tom Brughmans, an archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, is calling Itiner-e the “Google Ma