[post_page_title]”All roads lead to Rome”[/post_page_title]
Although these days the phrase “all roads lead to Rome” is used to refer to multiple methods leading to the same conclusion, this was taken quite literally in the ancient world. The Romans constructed more than 50,000 miles of roads, spanning from Britain, crossing over through Spain and Northern Africa and extending eastward to the Danube River in Europe and the Tigris-Euphrates river in the Middle East.
The Appian way, meanwhile, was the first ancient highway, built in 312 BCE. Emperor Caesar Augustus then erected the Milliarium Aureum in Rome’s central forum, from which point all 50,000 miles were measured.
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