In a surprising turn of events, a family in New Orleans stumbled upon an ancient Roman gravestone in their backyard, sparking ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and a new digital atlas shows that those roads stretched 50% longer than ...

Thanks to viral news coverage, experts are unraveling the mystery of how an ancient Roman soldier’s gravestone ended up in the garden of a New Orleans home. The untangling began when Erin Scott ...

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Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family's ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city. The discovery, announced by the National History ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of previously unknown routes.

New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...