Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recently discovered milestone along a mountain road in the Rough Cilicia area of Turkey is seen in an image provided by Itiner-e ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a recent visit to Rome I walked along the Via Appia (also called the Appian Way), past the presumed house of Stoic philosopher ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers created a digital dataset to map roads that would throughout the Roman Empire around 150 C.E. By piecing together historical records, topographic maps, and satellite imagery, the research ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The legions of the Roman Republic set out to subdue the Mediterranean world in the name of the city. Rome’s military leaders eventually demanded total control.