How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, anyone can ...

The Roman Empire was remarkably industrious when it came to infrastructure, constructing more than 55,000 miles of paved roads across Europe and North Africa. It’s challenging to visualize the vast ...

The digital Itiner-e atlas is revolutionizing how we see the ancient world. In it, researchers have mapped the entirety of the Roman road network — making clear just how it influenced European ...

Everyone's at least heard of the Roman Empire. But have you ever looked closely at a map of it? Before the internet age, that took some digging. But these days, we have not just an ordinary map, but a ...

Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map — named Itiner-e — of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings ...

All roads lead to Rome.' The Roman Empire built roads throughout its vast territory, from Europe to North Africa and the Middle East. An international research team has released a new dataset, 'Itiner ...

The Roman Empire may have fallen more than 1,500 years ago, but its streets never truly disappeared. Across Europe and the ...

A new map of the ancient Roman empire plots its major roads in a way that makes sense to modern city dwellers— a subway system. Basing the map off of 125 A.D, in the midst of Hadrian's reign, the map ...

Ever wondered how long it would take to travel from Rome to Constantinople at the peak of the Roman Empire? Or from Luna to Larissa? Or Parma to Thessalonica? This map of the Roman World created at ...

Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors. Now ...

Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...