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Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire


Attestations ~250,000 inscriptions from across the Roman Empire, enriched with AI-extracted name data This map visualises inscriptions from the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby (EDCS) that record personal names. For each inscription an AI pipeline attempts to identify individuals and extract their praenomen, nomen, cognomen, status, and gender.

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