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

As Pope Leo XIV marks his six-month milestone Nov. 8, a gradual sketch of his style and vision of church is beginning to ...

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

Researchers created an interactive map which lets users see how the ancient network crisscrossed the Empire, from Africa and ...

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.

The Appian Way, or Via Appia Antica, was the first great Roman highway, built in 312 BC to move legions quickly across Italy—and today it offers travelers a journey through 2,000 years of history.

It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time 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.

According to legend, the Trojans migrated to Britain after the fall of Troy. A new book investigates the historicity of this legend.

The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named ...