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 ...

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 routes has nearly doubled the length of the confirmed ancient Roman ...

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 ...

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 impressive one in human history, more often than they probably ever ...

An ancient city — complete with a forum and a theater — was recently uncovered alongside a popular tourist destination in Italy, according to officials. In a translated announcement this month, the ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Gabii have uncovered a massive stone-lined basin that may represent one of Rome’s earliest monumental civic structures. Its central placement hints ...

In Rome’s own mythology, the early city was architecturally restrained and modest. This began to change, its ancient historians wrote, after Rome conquered Greece in the 2nd century B.C.E. and ...

A routine elevator project in Barcelona has uncovered 2,000-year-old Roman ruins, forcing historians to completely redraw the ...