"All roads lead to Rome!" Roads were the lifeline of the Roman Empire, stretching from Britannia to North Africa-- people ...

Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...

Archaeologists reveal that a new digital atlas shows Roman road network was 50% larger than known, mapping 186,000 miles across Europe, Africa and the Middle East using satellite imagery.

Researchers have created a new road map of the Roman world that could help historians study how religion, migration, trade, and even pandemics spread across the Roman Empire 2000 years ago. One of the ...

Europe’s drought and heatwave revealed an ancient Roman military camp complex, Aquis Querquennis, as water levels in the Lima River in Galicia, Spain, dropped. Galidrone Screengrab from Farodevigo's ...

The grand cities of ancient Rome’s vast empire and majestic churches of its fall. With its vast empire, ancient Rome gave Europe its first common culture. From England to Turkey, we explore the ...

New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe -- revealing that the rodent colonized the continent on two occasions in the ...

For the first time ever, researchers have mapped the entirety of the vast Roman road network highlighting its immense ...

Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...

One of the Roman Empire's biggest achievements was its infrastructure. Rome sponsored colossal projects, the Colosseum among them. It also built ports, amphitheaters and aqueducts. MARY LOUISE KELLY, ...