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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...