Rome’s rise from a small settlement to the center of a vast empire was deeply influenced by geography. The city developed around a strategic crossing of the Tiber River, aided by the presence of Tiber ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by Adam Pažout shows a fragment of a Roman milestone that was erected along the road Via Nova Traiana in ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...