Researchers created an interactive map which lets users see how the ancient network crisscrossed the Empire, from Africa and ...

Egypt recovered 36 ancient artifacts from the United States that had been smuggled out of the country, authorities announced ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of ...

A new digital map, Itiner-e, reveals 300,000 km of Roman roads across the ancient empire, offering a high-tech look at the ...

Advances in technology and other newly accessible sources have greatly expanded researchers’ ability to locate ancient roadways.

Some journeys span centuries before reaching their destination. Egypt’s newest cultural landmark — the Grand Egyptian Museum ...

Every writer of history wants to craft a work that sticks to the ribs of the reader, and no meal does that better than one made from sacred cows. That’s what John Samuel Harpham aims to do in The ...

A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.

At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an ...

A road project in central Scotland has revealed one of the country’s most intriguing archaeological finds in decades: an ...

The “Greekness” of the Terracotta Army went viral, but archaeologists in China were skeptical of the influence of Greek art.