There are several famous neighborhoods and squares in Athens with strange names, whose origins even Athenians are unaware of.
The Minoan Road, over 3,500 years old, is the oldest known paved road in Europe. It connected prominent Minoan cities.
It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its ...
Several times now, in different articles, we have referred to a 4th-century AD geographical text that constitutes the oldest ...
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. A social media trend revealed a few years ago that men think about the Roman Empire, the most impressive one in human history, more often than they probably ever ...
How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, anyone can ...
Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds ...
Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...