Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers created a digital dataset to map roads that would throughout the Roman Empire around 150 C.E. By piecing together historical records, ...

Walking Britain’s Roman Roads Season 1 is a documentary miniseries hosted by the historian Dan Jones. It explores the legacy of the Roman Empire in Britain through its developments in infrastructure.

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 ...

A fragment of a Roman milestone that was erected along the road Via Nova Traiana in Jordan. (Adam Pazout/Itiner-e) WASHINGTON — As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads ...

Paul explores the most common misconceptions about Roman roads, from their legendary durability to how they were actually built. On location between Salisbury and Winchester, he digs into the real ...

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 ...

A group of British schoolchildren got to witness an archaeological excavation up close when a Roman road was discovered beneath their playing field. The children attend a small primary school in ...

A new digital dataset and map of the Roman Empire at that time—created by researchers from Denmark and Barcelona—claim there were 62,000 additional miles of roads throughout the empire that were ...