A new interactive map reveals the Roman road network, linking Ancient Greece with the empire and shaping trade, travel, and ...

Ancient Greece witnessed numerous significant battles that played pivotal roles in shaping its history and Western civilization.

A new digital atlas, published on Thursday, has revealed the ancient Roman road network stretched an astonishing 50 per cent ...

A new digital map of the road network that once connected the Roman Empire has been created, revealing a staggeringly vast ...

Meet Itiner-e, a new high-resolution digital dataset and map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 CE. A team of researchers ...

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to Southeast Europe. The Achaemenid Empire controlled a vast area with ...

The ruins of the ancient Roman city of Puteoli are a jumbled mix of toppled walls, pillars, and broken stone floors, mostly submerged underneath three to six feet of water in Italy’s tranquil Bay of ...

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Whether laced with viper venom, poison gas, or deadly pathogens—these weapons of war relied on nature's armory to slay the enemy. Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s ...

A bronze, temple-shaped box dating back over 1,700 years was discovered in central Romania, officials with the Turda History Museum announced in late September. Archaeologists unearthed the box over ...

Inside View: WSJ columnist Andy Kessler would rather be subjected to Jimmy Kimmel than protected from him by government. The essay on “The Braggart” begins: “Bragging is pretending to have excellences ...