The Flaminia Cuts: Roman Rock-Carving Engineering and the Anthropization of the Furlo Defile Where the Metauro River forces its way through the calcareous spine of the Umbrian-Marchigian Apennines, the Romans encountered one of the most intractable obstacles on the entire Via Flaminia route: a sheer-sided limestone gorge too narrow for […]
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Appian Way Coastal Corridor: Geo-Archaeology of Retaining Walls and Roman Basalt Pavements in the Aurunci Shadows Between the volcanic headland of Terracina and the alluvial delta of the Garigliano River, the Via Appia navigates one of its most geologically demanding passages: a narrow coastal corridor compressed between the Tyrrhenian Sea […]
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