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

A developer built an interactive map visualizing ~250,000 Roman inscriptions from the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby, using AI to extract personal names, status, and gender with 80–85% accuracy. The tool allows users to explore inscriptions by location, search by name or province, and export data, with a flagging system for errors.

Roman Name 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 https://db.edcs.eu that record personal names. For each inscription an AI pipeline attempts to identify individuals and extract their praenomen , nomen , cognomen , status, and gender. Zoom in to explore individual inscriptions. Click any marker to see the people recorded on it, the inscription text, and where available a translation and summary. Use the search bar and filters to narrow down what you see. Prefer to search by name, province, or date? Use the Search / Browse /search interface to query the database directly, filter results, and export data as CSV or JSON. Name extraction is roughly 80–85% accurate. Errors are inevitable — if you spot a mistake, use the Flag this entry button in the detail panel to report it. Inscription data: EDCS https://db.edcs.eu · Cross-references: LIRE https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8431452 , EDH https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ , Trismegistos https://www.trismegistos.org/ · Map tiles: DARE https://dh.gu.se/dare/ Derived data released under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . See full attribution /attribution .