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Re:Mystery of Chedworth's 1,800-year-old Roman glass shard s... by fsloth on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:10AM (#20565523)
Would the distance in question be close to the distance from Glevum to Chersonesos? Then the fastest route between them would take 60 days.

This "google map" of the roman world by Stanford is fantastic!

http://orbis.stanford.edu/

If only such analysis was available realtime for all current economic variables.

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Re:Mystery of Chedworth's 1,800-year-old Roman glass shard s... by jdsully on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @05:32PM (#20569424)
Apparently Firefox is not "modern" according to orbis. Very unfortunate how the web has become such a monoculture.
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