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.

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

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

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 ...

Archeologists are hoping that an ancient map, left largely unstudied for 4,000 years, can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world. The Bronze Age map, at first look, is just a ...

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 ...

These coastal civilizations have long since disappeared under the waves. But new technology is revolutionizing underwater archaeology and surfacing the remains like never before. Resting on the ...