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We all know that roads were the great achievement of the ancient Romans. But do we know what they looked like and how they were built? About that in today's video. _____________________________________________________________ Parelthon on Instagram: / parelthonpl Parelthon on Facebook: / parelthonpl _____________________________________________________________ Bibliography: • Aldrete GS, Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia, Westport 2004. • Casson L., Travel in the Ancient World, Toronto 1974. • Chevallier R., Roman Roads, transl. NH Field, Berkeley–Los Angeles 1976. • Laurence R., The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change, London–New York 2002. • Lewis MJT, Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome, Cambridge 2004. • Quilici L., Land Transport, Part 1: Roads and Bridges, [in:] JP Oleson, The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World, Oxford–New York 2008, pp. 551-579. • Sprague de Camp L., The Ancient Engineers, New York 1993. • Yegül FK, Favro DG, Roman Architecutre and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity, Cambridge 2019. _______________________________________________________________ Graphics used: • By HaubiGerhard Haubold – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... • By Luca Gerber - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... • By Fernando - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... • By AlMare - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... • ViaggiamoHg, https://www.viaggiamohg.com/wp-conten...