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 ...

A new digital atlas, published on Thursday, has revealed the ancient Roman road network stretched an astonishing 50 per cent ...

An international research team has created a new map of the Roman Empire — and it expands the ancient road network by more ...

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

“These Roman roads—both paved and unpaved—gave structure to massive cultural shifts that affected Western history for the ...

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

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 ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

I've been listening to a weekly podcast called The History of Rome which I've found to be both educational and entertaining. I'm wanting more detail than is provided in the podcasts so here I am ...

For the first time, archaeologists have discovered wooden defenses surrounding an ancient Roman military base. The fence topped with sharpened wooden stakes, akin to today’s barbed wire, is the kind ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...