Stunning map of ancient roads will give you a good reason to think about the Roman Empire more often

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of previously unknown routes.
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Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom

Once 2,000 square miles in Virginia and North Carolina, the swamp today is perhaps one-tenth that size. Allison Shelley The worse it gets, as I wade and stumble through the Great Dismal Swamp, the ...