The first ever map in the Bible revolutionised map-making despite being printed the wrong way round, a new study reveals.

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 ...

Archaeologists discover a Roman stadium in Blaundus, an Ancient Greek city perched above Turkey’s Ulubey Canyon.

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

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Archaeologists reveal that a new digital atlas shows Roman road network was 50% larger than known, mapping 186,000 miles across Europe, Africa and the Middle East using satellite imagery.

An international research team has created by far the most extensive map of the road network in the Roman Empire, based on satellite images among other sources. The online map is called Itiner-e and ...

Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...

An international team of researchers publishes the first high-resolution digital atlas of Roman roads, doubling the known length and exposing the vast gaps in our knowledge. This new dataset, ...

One of the Roman Empire's biggest achievements was its infrastructure. Rome sponsored colossal projects, the Colosseum among them. It also built ports, amphitheaters and aqueducts. MARY LOUISE KELLY, ...