Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

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All roads lead to Rome, they say. A new digital map of the Roman Empire finds that its roads covered almost 50 percent more ground than previously thought. At its peak in the second century C.E., the ...

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

In the poem, Ibn al‑Wardi imagines the plague as a wandering trickster who drifts from one region to another, spreading death ...

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

An international team of archaeologists from UCL, Durham University, and Toraighyrov University (Kazakhstan) has uncovered ...

From Japan by sea to the Stans by horseback, there’s a lot of uncharted territory still to explore in the east.

A team of Chinese archaeologists has unearthed in the westernmost part of the Tarim Basin the remains of what was a ...

Discover the 6 most iconic skylines in Asia — from Singapore’s futuristic skyline to Tokyo’s neon-lit cityscape — where ...

At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an ...