A groundbreaking discovery has stunned researchers after students from the University of Cologne unearthed a 2,000-year-old ...

DNA samples from individuals across 2,000 years sheds light on the Etruscan origins, revealing Roman-era changes and genetic ...

From awful remakes like Ben-Hur to deluded passion projects like Megalopolis, the last decade's worst epic movies epitomize ...

Discover the world's best preserved Roman mosaics at this UNESCO World Heritage Site in a sleepy Sicilian town that was ...

A new interactive map reveals the Roman road network, linking Ancient Greece with the empire and shaping trade, travel, and ...

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

“The main contribution of the project is that it brings together all of that research about Roman road locations in an open ...

By 150 CE, the Empire was carved up and maintained by a network of stone/gravel/sand highways stretching 180,000 miles.

Advances in technology and other newly accessible sources have greatly expanded researchers’ ability to locate ancient roadways.

Archaeologists discovered the engraved gemstone at Bremenium, a fort north of Hadrian's Wall. Excavations at a Roman fort in ...

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 ...