Nearly 2,000 years ago this was the line that divided the Roman Empire from the rest of the ... Between 101 and 117, he fought wars of conquest in present-day Romania, Armenia, Iran, and Iraq ...

from ancient Roman times to the present day, as the tools of the cartographic trade evolve from flights of fancy to high-flown satellite imagery. Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's ...

of rivers and canals Map reveals how much it would have cost to travel on roads and seas across the empire in 200 CE It calculates the route based on the season, or mode of transport chosen - and ...