Ancient Surveying
From the Nile to the Roman Grid: Surveying in Ancient Egypt and Rome
Cubit rods, stretched cords, the Roman groma, and the administrative systems that connected ancient measurement to land, construction, and law.
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Category: Ancient Surveying
Surveying, measurement, and land administration in the ancient world.
Ancient Surveying
Roman Surveyors and the Corpus Agrimensorum: Law Written on the Landscape
Roman agrimensores combined angle-setting, land division, maps, boundary law, and dispute work in a profession whose surviving writings still sound unexpectedly practical.