This week was a big one, as yesterday's Tinto Maps post was the grand heart of early modern Europe: The Holy Roman Empire. Historical strategy fans long knew that this would be an immense ...

The Roman Empire’s rise and fall, its culture and economy, and how it laid the foundations of the modern world.

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.

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.

Archaeologists and students in the Netherlands have unearthed a 1,800-year-old temporary Roman military fort in the ...

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 ...

FOLLOWING CAESAR: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire. By John Keahey. St. Martin’s Press. 256 pages. $30.

WE have received from the Ordnance Survey the Aberdeen sheet of the International Map of the Roman Empire on the scale of 1 to 1,000,000. The sheet covers the greater part of Scotland north of the ...

The only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire goes on show in Vienna, Austria, for one day only.

Archaeologists in Spain recently made an “excepcional” — which translates to exceptional— discovery: an ancient Roman mosaic floor that includes a depiction of Medusa’s head.