Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, anyone can ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers created a digital dataset to map roads that would throughout the Roman Empire around 150 C.E. By piecing together historical records, ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

All roads lead to Rome.' The Roman Empire built roads throughout its vast territory, from Europe to North Africa and the Middle East. An international research team has released a new dataset, 'Itiner ...

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. A social media trend revealed a few years ago that men think about the Roman Empire, the most impressive one in human history, more often than they probably ever ...

Researchers have created a new road map of the Roman world that could help historians study how religion, migration, trade, and even pandemics spread across the Roman Empire 2000 years ago. One of the ...

The main travel axes of the Roman Empire — such as here in Ephesus, Turkey — were the basis for its massive expansion of trade, intellectual exchange and military occupation across Europe, North ...

A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed in south-east London in a “remarkable” archaeological discovery. The 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street, ran from ...

A portion of one of Britain’s most significant Roman roads has been uncovered in London. The 2,000-year-old road was found beneath the Old Kent Road in the city's southeast area. The discovery was ...