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

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 ...

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.

In the works for decades, the massive, often overwhelming museum has finally opened to the public, displaying a trove of ...

Climate change is not just a modern dilemma; it’s a force that has reshaped the trajectory of human history time and again.

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

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, ...