The map, uploaded by the ministry’s Arabic language X/Twitter account, showed the biblical boundaries of the kingdoms of ...

Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East studies at Mutah University—began looking for Tharais. The field project ...

A new interactive map of the Roman Empire that includes roads, rivers and hundreds of sea routes allows users to calculate the travel time and costs for traversing the ancient empire. The ...

Researchers have identified the elusive ancient “lost city” of Cambodia. Scientists used aerial laser scans and ground-based surveying to map Mahendraparvata, or the Mountain of Indra, King of ...

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.

Using information about the roads from a handful of sources–like Stanford’s ORBIS model, the Pelagios digital map of the Roman Empire, and the ancient Antonine Itinerary of stopping points ...

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 ...

A team of researchers has managed to extract and sequence DNA from fish remains found in an ancient Roman salting factory in ...

The map reveals how much it would have cost to travel on roads and seas across the Roman Empire in 200 CE, and calculates the route based on the season or mode of transport chosen.