The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman ...

Archaeologists and students in the Netherlands have unearthed a 1,800-year-old temporary Roman military fort in the ...

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

FOLLOWING CAESAR: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire. By John Keahey. St. Martin’s Press. 256 pages. $30.

The trail’s 215 miles connect ancient road networks with modern hiking paths, tracing rivers, twisting up gorges and traversing the ruins of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine cities. Map ...

Interactive map reveals travel times in Ancient Rome – and it will make your daily commute feel like a breeze. At its largest, the Roman Empire covered a staggering 1,061,780 square miles ...

Map showing the find site (green dot) and presumed straight course of Roman road, matching the modern Old Kent Road. The modern road kinks after Commercial Way, and this is perhaps where the old ...

alt_text: The map shows the location of Bubon, site of a Roman shrine, the nearby village of Ibecik, Burdur and Izmir, Turkey. It also shows Rome and the extent of the Roman Empire when the shrine ...

Map of the Roman Eastern Mediterranean with the site of Anazarbus (Anazarbos), along with the Roman road network in red (image via the Ancient World Mapping Center, UNC-Chapel Hill) ...