He was Rome’s first ... Roman Republic into an empire. Under Augustus and his successors, the empire experienced 200 years of relative peace and prosperity. Here are 40 maps that explain the ...

The Peutinger Table does not just map the Roman Empire. It starts in the far west ... destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in the first century A.D.—are shown. Their inclusion shows that ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document ... scroll dates from the late 12th or the early 13th century and was ...

Built during the republic and empire ... famous Roman road. Paved with large basalt slabs, it was built in the fourth century B.C. at the direction of Censor Appius Claudius. At first, the ...