It turns out that not all roads lead to Rome, after all – at least, not in a literal sense. A new map of the empire's ancient land routes has nearly doubled the length of the confirmed ancient Roman ...

Researchers created a digital dataset to map roads that would throughout the Roman Empire around 150 C.E. By piecing together historical records, topographic maps, and satellite imagery, the research ...

World map in Ptolemy’s “Geographia” (1460) (courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...

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In southern Turkey, an extensive new trail network spirits trekkers to Pisidia, home to many lost treasures and a true crossroads of civilizations The city gate of Ariassos, one of several ancient ...

In the center of Siena, Italy, a cathedral has stood for nearly 800 years. A black-and-white layer cake of heavy stone, fine-cut statuary, and rich mosaics, the imposing structure—now visited by more ...