This is ORBIS, an online simulation (and thoroughly brainy time sink) that allows you to chart a route through the Roman Empire circa 200 AD. As the developers explain: ...

At its height around 100 AD, the Roman Empire stretched from Britain in the Northwest to Egypt in the Southeast. To get a sense for how big that is, it's helpful to compare it to the contemporary ...

VIA ROMANA A new interactive map of the Roman Empire allows users to calculate costs in time and money for hundreds of river, road and sea routes. W. Scheidel and E. Meeks.

There are any number of factors that contribute to the demise of an entire civilization, like the collapse of the Roman Empire circa 476 AD. The empire's slow decline is typically attributed to ...

An incredible new map reveals the Roman amphitheatres dotted ... Britain was part of the Roman Empire for nearly four centuries, from the invasion under emperor Claudius in AD 43 until ...

The Roman Empire was remarkably industrious when it came to infrastructure, constructing more than 55,000 miles of paved roads across Europe and North Africa. It’s challenging to visualize the ...

The Army in a Declining Empire. In this new work, Esposito, who has written on a broad range of topics in military history, such as The War of the Triple Alliance and Armies of Early Colonial America, ...

Roman coins unearthed in Devon prompt historians to redraw map of the empire. An archaelogical site in Devon suggests the southwest of England was 'less backward' and more influenced by Roman ...