Augustus and the Pax Romana

Augustus and the Pax Romana; the coinage reform puts Caesar's face on the money; the Golden Milestone and the cursus publicus.

In plain words

Augustus brings the Roman peace, puts Caesar's face on the coins, and completes the roads and the imperial post. Built for legions, taxes and grain, within two generations the roads carry the letters of a crucified man's followers, in Greek, across an empire that would execute them.

The mechanism

THE DELIVERY SYSTEM COMPLETED — laid for legions, tax and grain, and nothing else. Two generations later the letters of a crucified provincial's followers move along those stones, in Koine, on a grid built by an empire that would execute its couriers

How it was checked

• EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• Plate — Rabax63, photograph of the Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ara_Pacis_(SW).jpg
• SourcesARCHAEOLOGY / SECULAR RECORD