The fall of the Roman Empire is one of history’s greatest mysteries, and determining the year it truly ended is a complex ...

A discussion of the Byzantium Empire, the longest lasting empire in the western world which began in 330 A.D. and collapsed 1,123 years later in 1453. May 26, 2023 at 10:00 AM ...

By the year 1453, there was very little left of the empire, just a series of armed villages and the well-defended city of Constantinople on the Bosporus. The last Roman emperor was the childless ...

The Roman Empire was remarkably industrious when it came to infrastructure, constructing more than 55,000 miles of paved roads across Europe and North Africa. It’s challenging to visualize the ...

VIA ROMANA A new interactive map of the Roman Empire allows users to calculate costs in time and money for hundreds of river, road and sea routes. W. Scheidel and E. Meeks ...

Everyone's at least heard of the Roman Empire. But have you ever looked closely at a map of it? Before the internet age, that took some digging. But these days, we have not just an ordinary map ...

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 ...

A new map of the ancient Roman empire plots its major roads in a way that makes sense to modern city dwellers— a subway system. Basing the map off of 125 A.D, in the midst of Hadrian's reign ...

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 ...