As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and a new digital atlas shows that those roads stretched 50% longer than ...

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 ...

In regards to the basin, it likely had a ceremonial use, based on finds of pottery and oil lamps discovered very nearby.

Rome: Engineering an Empire Who knew that plumbing could be so fascinating? Cashing in on all that gluttonous promotion for HBO's "Rome," the History Channel examines the empire through the ...

Elon Musk has donated money towards archaeological research driven by artificial intelligence that has the potential to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past. Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today, ...

The famed Colosseum in Rome fell into neglect hundreds of years ago, making visitors today strain to imagine how it looked in all its glory back in ancient times. Now the huge stone amphitheater, one ...

Archaeologists are also uncovering other features such as staircases, arches, and foundations of ancillary buildings that ...

That might not sound like such a dazzling accomplishment on its face, but given the drift toward history- and science-lite programming as cablers like History and Discovery pursue younger viewers, the ...