The art at these hotels rivals the world’s best museums

Enjoy Picasso over morning coffee, Dali over dinner, or take a garden stroll past a Henry Moore sculpture in one of these ...

All roads in ancient Rome stretched far longer than previously known, study shows

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

The Parthenon in Athens briefly shed its scaffolding. Here’s a look at its restoration

It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in ...

Impressive new visualization tool is the ‘Google Maps’ for Ancient Rome, according to researchers

The digital tool, called Itiner-e, allows people to virtually see a map of how the ancient Roman roads were once traveled in ...
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Fantastic New Digital Map Adds 100,000 km to Roman Road Network

At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an ...
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Massive New Map Reveals 300,000 Km of Ancient Roman Roads

It turns out that not all roads lead to Rome, after all – at least, not in a literal sense. A new map of the empire's ancient ...