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Researchers Have Analyzed the Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network of Roads. Turns Out, Not All of Them Led to Rome

For a new study, archaeologists attempted to answer age-old questions about Rome’s roads, including how connected the capital ...

A Bizarre Discovery Has Revealed the Secrets of the Roman Empire’s Most Shocking Spectacle

Legal texts expose the secret logistics behind the animal hunts that Romans loved.

Not all roads lead to Rome: Research challenges what we think we know about Roman roads

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark, Queen Mary University of London and other European ...

Study shows marvels of the Roman Empire's road network

By Will Dunham Sept 15 (Reuters) - Augustus, ancient Rome's first emperor, placed a gilded monument called the Milliarium ...
New Scientist

Roman roads weren’t so straight after all

Detailed data on the Roman Empire’s entire road network is offering fresh insight into how Romans built their infrastructure ...
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Beyond the gladiators: 10 wild historical facts about the Roman Empire

The Roman Empire is remembered for massive stone coliseums, legendary emperors, and invincible legions, but the reality of everyday life was far stranger than Hollywood movies suggest. From bizarre ...

Scientists Studied 185,896 Miles of Roman Roads—and That’s Still the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’

Last year, archaeologist Tom Brughmans and colleagues released itiner-e—the largest map of the Roman road system, covering ...

Metal Detectorists Dug up 141 Roman Gold Coins—Along with a 1,600-Year-Old Mystery

Many of the solidi were struck in Anatolia, thousands of miles east. No known crisis explains the burial.