Advances in technology and other newly accessible sources have greatly expanded researchers’ ability to locate ancient roadways.

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered rare jewels, coins and other artefacts while excavating tombs near the ruins of the classical city of Corinth dating to between the fourth and first centuries A ...

A new digital map of the road network that once connected the Roman Empire has been created, revealing a staggeringly vast ...

Greek archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of ancient artifacts while exploring the lost city of Tenea, which legend suggests was built some 3,000 years ago by Trojan prisoners of war. More than ...

The ruined harbour of Carthage, depicted in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) - Alamy By the 14th century, it was well known that all roads led to Rome – or, as Chaucer put it, that “diverse pathes ...

A meticulously reconstructed Pompeii bridal chariot that eluded the ancient city’s modern-day looters is a star of an ambitious new exhibition in Rome, which invites viewers to reflect on today's ...

European researchers recently discovered several ancient shipwrecks in Greek waters, some of which date back thousands of years. The shipwrecks were discovered in the waters surrounding the island of ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?