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 ...

For a new study, archaeologists attempted to answer age-old questions about Rome’s roads, including how connected the capital ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It turns out that not all roads lead to Rome, after all – at least, not in a literal sense. A new map of the empire's ancient land ...

They say all roads lead to Rome—but exactly how many Roman roads were there? According to new research, potentially over 68,000 miles (over 110,000 kilometers) more than previously known. Meet ...

Watch the story of Ancient Rome unfold geographically in just one minute using Google Earth, showing the rise and expansion of one of history’s most famous empires.

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After mapping around 185,896 miles of Roman roads, a team of archaeologists has found that some of our most basic assumptions about them may be way off.

A Dutch engineer has reconstructed, using academic sources and historic cartography, the road map that connected the Roman Empire. The result, accessible from any browser, including on a mobile phone, ...

Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors. Now ...

Melbourne Museum’s major exhibition tells us as much about how we look at this complicated culture as the culture itself.

Rome authorities on Thursday inaugurated a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an original marble map of Ancient Rome that visitors can literally walk over.