For the first time ever, researchers have mapped the entirety of the vast Roman road network highlighting its immense ...

By piecing together historical records, topographic maps, and satellite imagery, the research team covered more ground than ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and a new digital atlas shows that those roads stretched 50% longer than ...

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 ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great ...

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 new map of the Roman Empire's ancient land routes has nearly doubled the length of the confirmed road network, from 190,000 ...