Do any of you know any websites to go to so that I can find info on Via Appia, Rome, Italy? I need to know!!!!

Question

This report is due 2morrow so i would appreciate anything you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean actually 2mororw as in the 18th of January!!!!!!!

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Appia

Answer 2

(Latin "Via Appia"), most famous of the ancient Roman roads, built in 312 BC under Appius Claudius Caecus. It connected Rome with Capua and was later extended to Beneventum, Tarentum, and Brundisium. It was the chief highway to Greece and the East. Its total length was more than 350 miles. It was the first strand of what was to become a great web of paved highways throughout the whole Mediterranean world. There was nothing like it and without it Rome could not have won its tremendous empire. The use of cemented stone blocks has preserved it to the present day.

Roman roads were built so well that some are still in use today. They built their roads in this manner: from bottom to top they contained rubble, flat slabs in mortar, concrete and gravel, and tightly laid flat paving stones. Each road had its own curb (curb stones) and a drainage ditch.

I got 827,000 links by googling 'Via Appia"

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=o...

I got 361,000 links by googling "Appian Way"

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=o...

Answer 3

Google .com has a list of references on Via Appia, Italy or the Appian Way. Take your pick from there.

Answer 4

This may help you out:

http://www.route40.net/history/milestone...

http://www.oldandsold.com/articles27n/ro...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Appia

.. incl pics