All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped NYT: Technology By:Franz Lidz 9 December 2025 at 03:00 A digital atlas of ancient Romeβs highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. Β© Jonathan Corum/The New York Times
All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped NYT: Science By:Franz Lidz 9 December 2025 at 03:00 A digital atlas of ancient Romeβs highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. Β© Jonathan Corum/The New York Times
Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk? NYT: Science By:Franz Lidz 26 November 2025 at 10:00 Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation. Β© Josh Haner/The New York TimesThe Rapa Nui moai, the monolithic stone figures of Easter Island, were hewed from compacted ash in a quarry inside the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano between A.D. 1200 and 1700.