A map of the Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent in A.D. 565. ... The Eastern Roman Empire, ... who were also angry at the high taxes Justinian had imposed.

Here are 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire — its rise and fall, its culture and economy, and how it laid the foundations of the modern world. 1) The rise and fall of Rome. Roke.

WE have received from the Ordnance Survey the Aberdeen sheet of the International Map of the Roman Empire on the scale of 1 to 1,000,000. The sheet covers the greater part of Scotland north of the ...

Archaeologists have revealed the layout of an ancient Roman town in unprecedented detail – without any digging. A team from the University of Cambridge and Belgium’s Ghent University used ...

This map of the Roman World created at Stanford University is awesomely realistic — all the ancient transportation lines on it actually existed 2,000 years ago. Tell us, would you like to travel ...

The Roman Empire was remarkably industrious when it came to infrastructure, constructing more than 55,000 miles of paved roads across Europe and North Africa. It’s challenging to visualize the ...

This week was a big one, as yesterday's Tinto Maps post was the grand heart of early modern Europe: The Holy Roman Empire. Historical strategy fans long knew that this would be an immense ...