A section of one of Britain ’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed in south-east London in a “remarkable” archaeological discovery. The 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street ...

They then divided the map into a fine-mesh grid, in each box measuring the presence of Roman roads and comparing it with the infrastructure, population density and economic activity of today.

Construction workers uncovered a well-preserved section of the 2,000-year-old Roman Watling Street beneath Old Kent Road in Southwark, London. The discovery was made during early works by ...

Archaeology & History A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Road, Trod by Emperors, Is Found Beneath London “Watling Street” once ran from Dover in the East of the country through London to the West Midlands.

A well-preserved Roman road is among the finds uncovered by archaeologists in a city centre. The artefacts have been found in Manchester just below street level on Liverpool Road, near Castlefield.

Formerly Roman-populated areas of Germany still tend to be wealthier than areas where they did not settle, in part thanks to the Roman Empire’s infrastructure, new research suggests.

It is part of an important 2,000-year-old road known as Roman Watling Street, built shortly after the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43.