The old Inca road network was impressive in scale and according to new academic research still provides benefits to people living along the ancient transport lines. Source: buff.ly/3rPGLxw

One for #RomanRoadsFriday! “Roman Autobahn” uncovered next to the A8 (a motorway in Southern Germany). Achaeologists have uncovered a 90m stretch of the so-called Roman Alblimes road – a key frontier route linking Rottweil (my hometown) and Heidenheim. 👉 www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...

After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.

Have a look! Viabundus-colleague Kasper Andersen explains the societal context of this find. Now go on and find the roads...

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Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that they say dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society.

Halnaker tree tunnel in Sussex is a hollow way, or just Holloway Created by 2,000 years of traffic on the original Roman Road from London to Chichester Stane Street is the modern name of the road from Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester)

Using ArcGIS Online, map tiles from the Coalition of Ancient World Mappers, and publicly available data sets from the Ancient World Mapping Center and @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy I was able to create these maps with no artistic ability. Check out awmc.unc.edu! CC BY-SA 4.0

Land visibility was important to ancient mariners, who relied on the coast to navigate around the seas #WorldOceansDay A new map of land visibility around the Mediterranean helps explore the logistics of past seafaring. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Today we are nerding out on the Viabundus project at Universidade do Porto's CITCEM Research Workshop. Today's session deals with digital tools in historical and archaeological research. Thanks to Filipe Conceição for the invitation! @muntera.bsky.social

Companion to the Datini Letters map: a new Voyages explorer for the Melis archive. 3,393 Mediterranean ship records (1379–1492). Arcs coloured by predominant vessel type per route. Ports geocoded via @whgazetteer.org. docuracy.github.io/datini/viagg... #DigitalHumanities #DH #MedievalMed

Fukui Bridge in Echizen Province https://collections.artsmia.org/art/62758/

We really exist and are encyclopedia-worthy! Find the Viabundus-project now officially included in 🇩🇰 Danmarks Nationalleksikon: Lex.dk/Viabundus

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

Our very own Professor Stefan Brink presenting 'Early Maritime Culture and Inland Routes in Sweden' @thinkuhi.bsky.social 7th International St Magnus Conference @uhiperth.bsky.social

Very decent of the Romans to build a road leading from the garage where my car gets serviced to within a few hundred yards of my house. #historyonyourdoorstep #WelshHistory #LoveWhereYouLive

The remains of the foundations of Piercebridge Roman Bridge in County Durham that once carried Dere Street (the Roman road that linked York with Corbridge) across the River Tees. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Piercebridge

Journée d’étude – Comment quantifier les mobilités de personnes au Moyen Âge ? rmblf.be/2026/04/06/j...

Journée d’étude – Comment quantifier les mobilités de personnes au Moyen Âge ?

À partir de différentes formes de transmission (entre autres des découvertes archéologiques, des sceaux, des authentiques de reliques, des cartulaires et des « livres des bourgeois »), nous discute…

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You're in luck, because I wrote about roads back in 2023 (I also discuss older royal road systems)! acoup.blog/2023/06/02/c...

Collections: Roman Roads

This week we’re taking a brief look at Roman roads because that was the topic which won out on the latest ACOUP Senate poll and on this blog we conform to the mos maiorum by following the Sen…

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@bretdevereaux.bsky.social Was in a museum that had some exposition about workers, and now I want an article about Roads. "Roads, how did they made it?". Cause linking to distant places seems very hard in a pre-industrial world.

My first presentation on Computing Place and its Environmental Dimensions of Place signature service (EDOPS) is to the @pelagios.bsky.social Place Working Group meeting, 6 April, 14:00 UTC. Easy signup to attend: pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@viabundus auf der #FOSSGIS2026 ich freu mich

The workshop "Vormoderne Mobilität in Zeit und Raum abbilden", organised by @laurysarti.bsky.social in Bonn, showed a lot of open challenges in historical research as well as methodology in tackling questions of mobility. Four Viabundi were invited to contribute.

Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 15 new and 41 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 10 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at an […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Medieval Markets & Fairs in England & Wales: remember the excellent dataset published back in 2003? I've given it a snazzy new interface, incorporating various updates which were made following publication. Separately, I'm working on extending it to 1846... ihr-digital.github.io/markets-and-...

I enjoyed the reminder by @brilliantmaps how exciting the age of railways actually must’ve been. From 1837-1875 the network in France just exploded. Imagine seeing the world open up to you so rapidly after being relatively stuck in your region for so long. Source: buff.ly/RgyNhfd

#earlymodern historians of #trade & #merchants ! I am trying to take stock of the historiography on long-distance merchant guilds/nations/consulates of the past 10-20 years. 1/*

„Im 1234. Jahr n. Chr. gab es eine solch grausame Kälte, dass man von Venedig bis nach Cremona auf dem mächtigen Fluss Po mit beladenen Wagen fuhr. Der Wein gefror in den Fässern“ Wunderzeichenbuch, Augsburg, um 1550.

Breslau, 11. Feb 1626 Freitags ist des Bethlens Braut [1] allhie über Nacht geblieben / die hat 40 Wägen / jeden mit 6 Pferden bei sich - Bürgerschaft mit 200 Pferden, Landobrist von Dohna und viele Adelige ihr entgegen geritten. aus: brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/...

Time to open up the first ice roads! www.smhi.se/vader/vader-...

The Newport Arch - the remains of the north gateway to Roman Lincoln (Lindum Colonia). Built in around 200 AD, the arch is the only Roman gateway in the UK still used by traffic. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Lincoln

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Nach einem sehr bereichernden Workshop zur vormodernen Mobilität in Osnabrück im letzten Juni wollen Christoph Mauntel und ich das Format dieses Jahr in Kiel fortsetzen. Der CFP findet sich hier: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve.... Wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge und sind dankbar fürs Teilen. 🤗