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 ...

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help maritime travel in the ...

After developing the biggest-ever map of Roman roads, a team of archaeologists has found that some of our most basic assumptions about them may be way off. Reading time 3 minutes Last year, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. There's something special about a long road trip, miles of open highway, the hum of your tires on the ...