Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...

A group of British schoolchildren got to witness an archaeological excavation up close when a Roman road was discovered beneath their playing field. The children attend a small primary school in ...

SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, a geophysical survey of more than 2,400 acres in England’s West Midlands has detected traces of two Roman villas, a Roman cemetery, Roman ...

A "beautifully carved" ancient Roman stone coffin weighing more than 1,600 pounds has been unearthed during road upgrade works in the United Kingdom. The coffin was found along a section of the A47 ...

Since the Romans themselves wrote about the subject, we have a clear idea of the good things they did for Britain. Roads, ...

A stretch of one of the most significant roads in Roman-era Britain has been unearthed underneath the asphalt of the Old Kent Road in southeast London. The ancient road, known as Watling Street, was ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

In this six-part series we look at six of the roads that best tell the story of Rome’s merciless charge that shook the British Isles, shaping the land indelibly. We team up with archaeologists using ...

Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations after the Romans arrived ...