A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a ...

Already honored in 2020 as a teacher of the year for Louisiana, Nathalie Roy is now getting recognition on the world stage. Roy is a Latin teacher at Glasgow Middle who has gained recognition via her ...

In a recent archaeological excavation, what initially seemed to be the remains of an ordinary Roman home turned out to be ...

A groundbreaking new map has dramatically expanded our understanding of the Roman Empire’s land transport network –– ...

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...

AS BIG as their empire was, the Romans never reached Greenland. Yet that remote island has become the place to go for those interested in ancient economic history. Greenland’s ice sheets preserve ...

What can concrete made during the Roman Empire help modern engineering develop more efficient concrete? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as an international team of ...

NASA has awarded a launch services contract to SpaceX for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. The contract is an indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity contract. The agency said the ...

Pliny the Elder, Natural History, trans. H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library 394 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952), 48–49 (33.19.60). 3. Pliny the ...