Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the famous “What have the Romans ever done for us?” scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, one ...

Lined with ruins, tombs, and hidden churches, the Appian Way is where history still breathes. We follow the first seven miles of Ancient Rome’s iconic road, from the Circus Maximus to forgotten villas ...

as Catherine Fletcher reminds us in “The Roads to Rome.” Ms. Fletcher, a historian at Manchester Metropolitan University, puts road-building at the center of Rome’s imperial project.

Fletcher’s subtitle, “A History of Imperial Expansion,” is ... which keeps the book unpredictable and entertaining. “The Roads to Rome” is primarily about the afterlife of Rome’s ...

It’s one of hundreds of sites that remain long after the Romans left Britain, and just part of the legacy of Ancient Rome. Now Bath ... Some of the roads we use today follow the same routes ...