Researchers built the most complete Roman road map ever made, charting nearly 186,000 miles across Europe, North Africa, and ...

New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...

Ancient North Africa and its expansive civilizations -- Rome and North Africa -- Medieval North Africa: from the arrival of Islam to the Berber empires -- Almoravid and the Almohad empires and their ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...