Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
Roman Maps — the Roman Empire in 117 CE
An interactive map of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent, with provinces, roads, rivers, a 16,000-place gazetteer, and detailed plans of 40 archaeological sites.
Why it surfacedThis is a serious historical atlas with an unusually deep sense of place: the site moves from the empire-wide view to street-level detail at places such as Pompeii, Timgad, Palmyra, and Ostia Antica. Its snapshot of 117 CE turns a familiar map of Rome into a browsable world of roads, settlements, ruins, and forgotten infrastructure.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.