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 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 ...