Interamna Lirenas has turned out to be far more than a “backwater town” of the Roman Empire. According to a published study in Roman Urbanism in Italy, this central Italian town thrived well beyond ...

The ruins of Augusta Raurica near Basel, Switzerland are home to the best-preserved Roman theater north of the Alps.

Archaeologists have launched a detailed exploration of a newly discovered Roman town south of Great Staunton, England. The findings, first reported in 2024 by AOC Archaeology on behalf of East Park ...

Archaeologists from England’s University of Cambridge and Belgium’s Ghent University have mapped an entire ancient Roman town without lifting a shovel. The archaeologists were able to fully map 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 remains of a vast Roman trading settlement have been discovered by a team of archaeologists working along a future high-speed railway route in England. Hundreds of Roman coins, jewelry, pottery ...

In December 2007 a team of experts, led by The University of Nottingham, unveiled an extraordinary set of high-resolution images that gave an insight into the plan of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carlton Reid is a U.K.-based journalist covering sustainability. Now that—finally!—Italy’s Via Appia, or Appian Way, has been ...

A vast dig to lay the foundations for Britain’s new high-speed train network is helping to unearth rich new details about ancient Roman life. Archaeologists on Thursday hailed the discovery of an ...

A population estimate considering now-decomposed wooden houses suggests that Silchester, England, may have been typical of towns across the Roman Empire, CU Boulder researcher finds A rough site plan ...

Archaeologists surveying the planned route of a high-speed railway between London and Birmingham in the UK unearthed the remains of a Roman trading town in what is now South Northamptonshire. At its ...

An ancient Greco-Roman settlement in Egypt survived longer than traditionally assumed, archaeologists have proposed in a study. The study, published in the journal Antiquity, reports that the ...