Discover the world's best preserved Roman mosaics at this UNESCO World Heritage Site in a sleepy Sicilian town that was ...

Revolutionary scanning technology has identified two concealed air-filled anomalies behind the eastern facade of Egypt's Menkaure Pyramid, providing the first scientific evidence to support a ...

Researchers created Itiner-e, a "Google Maps for Roman Roads," charting the network that linked the expansive ancient empire.

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

A monumental new study, years in the making, has just presented Itiner-e, the most comprehensive, high-resolution digital map ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of previously unknown routes.

What scientists uncovered about its creators could upend everything we thought we knew about prehistoric life—and it’s ...

The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea.

A volunteer metal detectorist discovered a 2,200-year-old Celtic gold coin in Germany. Found in a field in Saxony, the nearly ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...