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

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

A new map of the empire's ancient land routes has nearly doubled the length of the confirmed ancient Roman road network, from ...

New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...

A publicly available project, Itiner-e also shows a bit of impressive historical revision is in order. It now appears that ...

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, was situated along the well-traveled Via Claudia Augusta ...

Archaeologists recently discovered a massive 2,000-year-old stone basin in ancient Gabii, Italy, revealing early Roman public ...

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 ...

Meet Itiner-e, a new high-resolution digital dataset and map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 CE. A team of researchers ...

This small, bronze skeleton is one of only a dozen known examples of an ancient Roman "larva convivalis" — a "banquet ghost" figurine given out as a party favor 2,000 years ago. The skeleton ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. The decade-long ...