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

Advances in technology and other newly accessible sources have greatly expanded researchers’ ability to locate ancient roadways.

“These Roman roads—both paved and unpaved—gave structure to massive cultural shifts that affected Western history for the ...

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

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

THOMASTOWN, IRELAND - SEPTEMBER 30: Tiger Woods of the United States (left) has some cream rubbed into his injured back by caddy Steve Williams on the fourth hole during the first round of the ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of the Alps. Computer technology helped unravel the mystery of the text ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For months, there has been intense speculation about what caused the Palisades fire. On Wednesday, federal ...

NEW ORLEANS — There is a mystery that archeologists and anthropologists are trying to solve. That mystery starts with a find in the backyard of a local home and will soon end in a city about an hour ...

Dominique Pelicot was convicted of drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and of inviting dozens of men to rape her. Here is how the events unfolded. By Ségolène Le Stradic and Catherine Porter ...