New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of previously unknown routes.

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

A new digital map of the road network that once connected the Roman Empire has been created, revealing a staggeringly vast constellation of interlocking routes. Named Itiner-e, the new digital map ...

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

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

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 ...

Laser mapping has revealed the extent of a cluster of ancient cities buried in the Amazon jungle that pre-date earlier discoveries by a thousand years. At least 10,000 farmers, and possibly tens of ...