At the height of its dominance, the Roman Empire included over 55 million people, stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria and covering nearly 4 million square kilometers. In many ways, it was the ...

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 ...

At the height of its power in the second century A.D., the Roman Empire was the largest the world had ever known. More than 55 million people lived within its borders, stretching from modern-day ...

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 ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...

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 ...

Construction in south London uncovered a 2,000-year-old Roman road under the modern street and confirmed long-standing archaeology theories. Google Street View July ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...

A stretch of one of the most significant roads in Roman-era Britain has been unearthed underneath the asphalt of the Old Kent Road in southeast London. The ancient road, known as Watling Street, was ...

Beckenham was once crossed by a Roman road that stretched for miles across London and the south east of England. (Image: Lewisham Council / Rob Reed / Google) Beckenham was once crossed by a Roman ...