The digital tool, called Itiner-e, allows people to virtually see a map of how the ancient Roman roads were once traveled in ...

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

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 high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining ...

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

Archaeologists have compiled the most detailed map yet of roads throughout the Roman Empire in AD 150, totalling almost ...

Ancient Roman gladiators are often imagined as chiselled, bronzed heroes of the arena, akin to today’s top athletes. But the ...

Archaeologists in France have uncovered a 1,700-year-old ancient Roman funerary area, including burials with libation conduits hilariously akin to today’s watering spikes.

Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the ...

Simone Quilici, director of the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, shared his plan to bring concerts to the almost ...

The terror that gripped ancient warriors wasn't just about facing an enemy's sword. Something deeper haunted battlefields ...