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, ...

Despite falling around 2,500 years ago, the Roman Empire can still be felt in aspects of everyday life —from Latin, which ...

The ancient remains of a section of the original Watling Street were recently uncovered during roadworks in Old Kent Road ...

Formerly Roman-populated areas of Germany still tend to be wealthier than areas where they did not settle, in part thanks to ...

There has never been a better time for lovers of Roman roads – those seeking, and seeking to understand, the indelible but elusive lines tattooed onto the face of Britain by the Roman occupiers ...

A ford thought to have been built by the Romans has been discovered in a Midlands town (Credits: Wychavon District Council / SWNS) Workmen have uncovered a suspected Roman road dating back 2,000 ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

A Roman road has been found by workers building a controversial £840m natural gas pipeline ... When complete, the pipeline will run from Milford Haven to Gloucestershire and eventually supply up to 20 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

If the road in Worcestershire is confirmed to be Roman, it will be the only one of its type in Britain. It is thought the single-track path could be part of a ford, a shallow place in a river or ...

THE repair of the bridge carrying the Roman road over the stream at Black Castle Clough, Blackstone Edge, having been completed (see NATURE of Sept. 3, p. 340), the bridge was declared open by Sir ...

The Tabula Peutingeriana is one of the Austrian National Library's greatest treasures. The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman ...