The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document ... and the seas have been stretched and flattened. The Mediterranean ...

One afternoon I drove through a series of long tunnels north of Nice to La Turbie, a medieval village hugging the hills 1,600 feet above the Mediterranean ... the Roman Empire. The map's origins ...

Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed ... much of the land around the Mediterranean Sea. It was thought that plagues ...

An incredible new map reveals the Roman amphitheatres dotted ... towns in Roman Britain and among the Empire's most significant settlements outside the Mediterranean The city's amphitheatre ...

Studies show that there is no textual evidence for the effects of the dust veil in the eastern Mediterranean ... were catastrophic for the eastern Roman Empire. You may like Mini ice age was ...

Nevertheless, the discovery of the forts’ existence challenges a popular hypothesis established in the 1930s about the role of such fortifications along the ancient Roman Empire’s eastern ...

After centuries of conquests, the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD ... enabled Roman civilization to dominate the Mediterranean and much of the known world for over 600 years.

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of ...