ROME - Augustus, ancient Rome’s first emperor, placed a gilded monument called the Milliarium Aureum, or Golden Milestone, in ...

Armed with a homemade diopter and some rusty GCSE maths, Paul attempts to recreate the Roman surveying method that produced ...

Two thousand years after Roman workers drove their last chisel into stone, you can still walk the same path they paved. Sections of the Via Appia outside Rome carry foot traffic today. Watling Street ...

After all this time, the ancient Roman Empire somehow still has its grubby paws all over the modern world. You can see its legacy in the use of Latin in fields like law and taxonomy, or the use of the ...

Some throughways even featured early versions of common highway features we see today like mile markers, signs marking distances, and rest stops.

Researchers have created the most detailed digital model yet of the Roman road network, mapping 299,171.31 kilometres, or roughly 186,000 miles, of roads across the empire's full territorial extent.

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 ...

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, ...

It's no easy feat to build a roadway let alone a highway system — especially one that stretches across a continent. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither were the 190,000 miles of roads that once ...