The Roman Empire’s rise and fall, its culture and economy, ... This map depicts the deployment of Rome’s legions when Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, died in 14 AD.

What if the Eastern Roman Empire had survived into modern times? This video examines how history might have unfolded differently after the fall of the West.

On This Fourth-Century Map, All Roads Really Do Lead to Rome. The Peutinger Table reveals the vastness of the Roman Empire and the idea that its great city was at the center of everything that ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — All roads may lead to Rome, but some are much smoother than others. A new interactive map of the Roman Empire that includes roads, rivers and hundreds of sea routes allows users ...

This map of the Roman World created at Stanford University is awesomely realistic — all the ancient transportation lines on it actually existed 2,000 years ago. Tell us, would you like to travel ...

In 9 AD, three Roman legions were ambushed and annihilated in a narrow forested pass in northern Germania. Led by the trusted yet deceived governor Varus, the Roman army walked into a devastating trap ...

The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after the western half of the empire collapsed. When you purchase through links on our site ...

An old adage states that Rome wasn't built in a day, meaning that big projects take time to complete. The Roman Empire, as an example, was established gradually and grew over hundreds of years ...

By the third century A.D., the highway was known as the Via Aurelia and regarded as an extension of the empire's road from Rome to Pisa, commissioned in 241 B.C. by the censor Caius Aurelius Cotta.

Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors.