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The Roads That Led to Rome

Name: The Roads That Led to Rome
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Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, Adolfo Tomeucci (Photographer)

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This book is the fruit of the Roman Road Expedition. Victor von Hagen led a team for 5 years thru 34 countries & followed the course of more than 30,000 miles of Roman roads. The expedition conducted the 1st systematic study of the road system since the 3rd century of our era, when Antoninus Augustus prepared a military itinerary for the Emperor Caracalla. The monumental exploration took them over snow-covered Alps, thru deserts, bogs, moorlands, the arid Atlas mountains & the vast sand seas of Africa. His investigation of the roads that led to Rome provides, as well, a view of 800 years of Roman history. With 64 color & 150 black & white illustrations.
The monument
Africa
Egypt
The Balkans
Noricum & Germania
Gaul
Britannia
Hispania
All roads led to Rome

GenresHistory

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

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Victor Wolfgang von Hagen

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Victor Wolfgang von Hagen (February 29, 1908 - March 8, 1985) was a US-American explorer, archaeological historian, anthropologist, and travel writer who traveled the South Americas with his wife, Christine. Mainly between 1940 and 1965, he published a large number of widely acclaimed books about the ancient people of the Inca, Maya, and Aztecs.

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Erik Graff

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March 19, 2013

This is an exhaustive illustrated coffee-table book about the Roman Roads--all of them--based on an extensive survey. The engineering involved is discussed in detail.

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