The spearhead, one could say, of Roman expansion I think most certainly was as much economically based as it was militarily ...

For a new study, archaeologists attempted to answer age-old questions about Rome’s roads, including how connected the capital was and whether current motorways trace Roman routes ...

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Think you know everything about ancient Rome? Think again! Join us as we count down the most fascinating, bizarre, and ...

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 stunning network of walls, rivers, desert forts, and mountain watchtowers marks Rome’s limits. At its peak in the second ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase ...

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There’s a strange and intriguing reference in the writings of a first-century Roman poet who describes a showdown between ...

The internet has once again made me feel insecure, this time by suggesting that most men spend considerable time thinking about the Roman Em p ire. Approximately 1 bazillion women on TikTok asked ...

Amid growing cultural awareness that men in particular have developed a fervent interest in ancient Rome as of late, here are the 10 best TV shows set there.