How Far Did Rome Explore?

As I explained on X, the Greeks and Romans were not really interested in exploration for its own sake. Educated Romans believed that monsters lived on the fringes of the known world. Pliny the Elder agreed with Herodotus on this point. The Romans made it to Iceland (Ultima Thule) in the north, Ireland in the west, the Horn of Africa in the south and a Roman embassy made it to China in the east.

Note: Europeans discovered mythical lands like Hy-Brazil and Terra Australis centuries later. The Norse discovered the Azores before the Romans.

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