Explore the innovative surveying instruments, such as the groma and chorobates, that enabled ancient engineers to map perfectly aligned transportation networks.

Ancient building materials have survived for millenias. What researchers discovered about their durability might surprise you ...

How did Roman road builders know which way to go? If they were a few degrees out setting off from, say, Chichester, they could have ended up in what is now Slough, not London. At sea, the Romans used ...

They say all roads lead to Rome—but exactly how many Roman roads were there? According to new research, potentially over 68,000 miles (over 110,000 kilometers) more than previously known. Meet ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It turns out that not all roads lead to Rome, after all – at least, not in a literal sense. A new map of the empire's ancient land ...

Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...

A stretch of one of the most significant roads in Roman-era Britain has been unearthed underneath the asphalt of the Old Kent Road in southeast London. The ancient road, known as Watling Street, was ...