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

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Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization and an ...

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

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 ...

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

Researchers created Itiner-e, a "Google Maps for Roman Roads," charting the network that linked the expansive ancient empire.

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