The proverb "All roads lead to Rome" is said to have originated in relation to the Roman monument known as the Milliarium Aureum, or golden milestone. Erected by Caesar, the point was said to be ...

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 ...

Roman feats of civil engineering were meant to awe their defeated subjects—and to facilitate the rapid deployment of the legions when such “soft power” failed. In Rome’s case, all roads ...

drawing parallels to the Roman Empire’s collapse. That comparison is unfair for two reasons. First, Rome had good roads that lasted over a millennium. Second, and more seriously, America has ...

Houston's holiday season will have a distinctly Roman feeling this year, as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is bringing the ...

The name All Roads is a nod to the saying that “all roads lead to Rome,” which reflects in a menu centered around eight Roman flatbreads (pinsas) topped with a variety of ingredients.

For several centuries, Roman soldiers were posted here to keep ... as Catherine Fletcher reminds us in “The Roads to Rome.” Ms. Fletcher, a historian at Manchester Metropolitan University ...