All roads lead to Rome, they say. A new digital map of the Roman Empire finds that its roads covered almost 50 percent more ground than previously thought. At its peak in the second century C.E., the ...

The ancient Romans are credited with building road networks, but a new digital atlas shows these stretched 50 per cent longer than previously estimated. The research published recently is a new update ...

Advances in technology and other newly accessible sources have greatly expanded researchers’ ability to locate ancient roadways.

A road or bridge made from modern concrete might only last 50 years. But the massive Pantheon building in Rome, made from unreinforced concrete, has been standing for nearly two millennia. And nearby, ...