Stories of he Roman Empire have been passed down through generations , and evidence of its existence is the remains and ...

"All roads lead to Rome!" Roads were the lifeline of the Roman Empire, stretching from Britannia to North Africa-- people ...

All roads lead to Rome, they say. A new digital map of the Roman Empire finds that its roads covered almost 50 percent more ground than previously thought. At its peak in the second century C.E., the ...

An international team of researchers publishes the first high-resolution digital atlas of Roman roads, doubling the known length and exposing the vast gaps in our knowledge. This new dataset, ...

The Roman Empire was remarkably industrious when it came to infrastructure, constructing more than 55,000 miles of paved roads across Europe and North Africa. It’s challenging to visualize the vast ...

A new map of the ancient Roman empire plots its major roads in a way that makes sense to modern city dwellers— a subway system. Basing the map off of 125 A.D, in the midst of Hadrian's reign, the map ...

Archaeologists reveal that a new digital atlas shows Roman road network was 50% larger than known, mapping 186,000 miles across Europe, Africa and the Middle East using satellite imagery.

The Roman Empire might have been bigger than we first thought. The uncovering of a hidden road network demonstrates the ...

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 ...

The tactile map, an innovation of the 19 th century, allowed both blind and sighted students to feel their way across a given geography. Writing for the digital archive 19 th-Century Disability: ...