Please listen to Isaac Moreno Gallo. 99% of the Roman Roads had no big stones on it. Only near big cities you have the stone pavement, basically in the cemetery that was outside town alongside the road.
People with very little idea about engineering wrote the textbooks of the past and some of the wrong ideas are transmitted even today.
[1] https://itiner-e.org/
Itiner-e: the Google Maps of Roman Roads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864341 - Nov 2025 (42 comments)
Also:
Roman Roads (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597216 - June 2024 (157 comments)
Subway-style maps of roads of the Roman Empire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781879 - July 2020 (27 comments)
'Lost' Roads of Ancient Rome Discovered with 3D Laser Scanners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11094744 - Feb 2016 (5 comments)
Please listen to Isaac Moreno Gallo. 99% of the Roman Roads had no big stones on it. Only near big cities you have the stone pavement, basically in the cemetery that was outside town alongside the road.
People with very little idea about engineering wrote the textbooks of the past and some of the wrong ideas are transmitted even today.