Episode #5 - Getting Your Kicks On Ancient Roman Route 66! 

How is it that the ancient Romans built a network of empire-wide highways that still see traffic on their stones 2,000 years later and the surface of your local street and highway are in utter disrepair after a few years? What made Rome's road system so successful? What was it like to travel across the network of highways from city to city? Where did one stop between large towns? Was it dangerous?

In this two-part episode we'll examine the ancient Viae Romana and discover how and why a network of excellent highways made the empire of Rome a great military and economic powerhouse.