of rivers and canals Map reveals how much it would have cost to travel on roads and seas across the empire in 200 CE It calculates the route based on the season, or mode of transport chosen - and ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

The empire spread to Southern, Western and parts of Eastern Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa. In many ways, the Roman and Greek empires shared a number values and systems. As far as health was ...