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 ...

For the past five years, archaeologists at the ancient city of Stratonikeia in southwestern Turkey have been excavating a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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