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 ...

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

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 ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...

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 ...