Archaeologists have long treated Rome’s roads as a marvel of ancient engineering, but new digital mapping shows the network ...

How did the Etruscans, powerful neighbors of Rome, disappear from history? Were they destroyed, or culturally absorbed?

This short tells a story about what would happen if Italy tried to rebuild the Roman Empire? They would start small, and ...

A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of Marcus Aurelius.

For centuries, historians have traced the arteries of the Roman Empire through fragmentary maps and uneven records. Now, a new digital atlas nearly doubles the known extent of Roman roads, charting ...

Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds ...

A comprehensive new map of Roman roads has boosted the known size of the empire’s land transport network by almost 60 per cent – and it is available for anyone to explore online. The project, called ...

An international research team has created a new map of the Roman Empire — and it expands the ancient road network by more than 60,000 miles (100,000 kilometers). "The 200-year research history on ...