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

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

Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

In the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, there is only one that still stands today. It is the Great Pyramid of ...

Imagine a map that shows, with an unprecedented level of detail, the immense network of roads that once connected the vast ...

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 ...

Thousands of years ago, on the sacred rock from which my ancestors fled, this season of the year was celebrated as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival ...

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