A new interactive map of the Roman Empire that includes roads, rivers and hundreds of sea routes allows users to calculate the travel time and costs for traversing the ancient empire. The ...

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

Here are 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire — its rise and fall, ... So the barbarian tribes who carved up the old empire — the Franks, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

This map of the Roman World created at Stanford University is awesomely realistic — all the ancient transportation lines on it actually existed 2,000 years ago. Tell us, would you like to travel ...

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 ...

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.

Using information about the roads from a handful of sources–like Stanford’s ORBIS model, the Pelagios digital map of the Roman Empire, and the ancient Antonine Itinerary of stopping points ...

Or so says this wonderfully thought-out fantasy transit map from Sasha Trubetskoy, showing the major thoroughfares of the Roman Empire circa 125 A.D. as dozens of stops along multicolored subway ...