Archaeologists have long treated Rome’s roads as a marvel of ancient engineering, but new digital mapping shows the network was far more extensive than standard textbooks suggest. A high resolution ...

Sometime in 1934, a little east of Vienna, an 18- or 19-year-old Englishman named Patrick Leigh Fermor said goodbye to a car-owning friend and resumed the transcontinental trek he had determined to ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome—and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a recent visit to Rome I walked along the Via Appia (also called the Appian Way), past the presumed house of Stoic philosopher ...

Like great beasts sickening with a common plague, the world’s big cities have long been struggling to keep from choking to death on the automobile. During the past few years, in the wake of Italy’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fragment of a Roman milestone erected along the road Via Nova in Jordan. A publicly available project, Itiner-e also shows a bit ...

One of the Roman Empire's biggest achievements was its infrastructure. Rome sponsored colossal projects, the Colosseum among them. It also built ports, amphitheaters and aqueducts. MARY LOUISE KELLY, ...

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