06 September 2022

separated at birth: Roman roads

Roman road, discovered at the site of a new McDonald's in Marino, Italy, restored and now visible under glass floor; photo from Hyperallergic article, February 2017, courtesy of Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape

Roman road, exposed, at Selinunte, on the southern coast of Sicily, photo 2013

Modern roads vary in smoothness and general condition too.

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