Roads of History: From Roman Empire to Modern Highways. Posted: March 8, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025. The film discusses the importance of understanding freeway driving, highlighting its ...

I'd worked my way around this land because knowing there were Roman roads in the area had always attracted me. Within 15 minutes, I found two Roman brooches. They were the clues telling me people ...

The Silk Road wasn’t actually a road. Even the name for it came from the 19th century and doesn’t really reflect the nature of trade on this historic route, says Amanda Respess, an assistant professor ...

The historian Catherine Fletcher aims to rectify that with The Roads to Rome, her very readable book about the role of Roman roads in 2,000 years of history. Her account underlines how the roads ...

“How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” It's a question that became a viral trend back in 2023. Thanks to a Swedish influencer who curiously asked her followers to find out. Women all ...

It is one of the most well-preserved Roman roads in the UK, where it runs the entire length of a country from coast to coast, much of it still visible and even walkable.

An archaeological dig on a major road development "exceeded all expectations". A group of 70 archaeologists undertook excavations on the south-eastern part of the A417 in Gloucestershire for the ...

Some of the county's Roman roads are footpaths that can be walked through and enjoyed, while others have been lost to history. There are even some with parts that are still in use to this day.

Roman road surfaces have been discovered around here before, notably at the Cantium Retail Park a little to the north-west. That discovery was slightly south of the course of the modern Old Kent ...

The roman road of King Street ran through Cambridgeshire to Lincolnshire (Image: Tim Heaton/Geograph) Get the latest Cambridgeshire Live breaking news on WhatsApp.