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

A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.

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 – to dip briefly into the world of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian – did the Romans ever do for us? Apart, of course, from ...

A medieval tower near the Roman Forum has partially collapsed during renovation work, critically injuring at least one worker ...

One of the Mamluk-era tunnels carved into tufa rock at Nahal 'Amal, revealing the sophisticated hydraulic engineering that powered medieval sugar production. (Azriel Yechezkel / A. Frumkin et al., ...

Excavations at Satala in northeastern Turkey have unearthed a bronze bust depicting Isis, an ancient Egyptian goddess whose cult spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

Bridges, both big and small, are one of the most visually striking pieces of infrastructure. As the following examples ...

The apparent calm of the turquoise waters of Gan Ha-Shelosha National Park hides, beneath its surface, the architecture of a ...