imperial times

In 1810, by which time he had built an empire that spanned most of continental Europe, if the Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, wanted to get a message from Paris to Rome, he couldn’t send it any faster than the Romans were able to nearly 2,000 years ago.  By the first and second centuries AD, at the height of its empire, Rome had created a network of roads … [Read more...] about The Amazing Engineering of Ancient Roman Roads