A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining ...

Volunteer John Pierce compares original images to Google Earth using a light table to identify the coordinates for the centerpoint of each historical image. (Photo courtesy UM News Service) This 1937 ...

Combining historical records with satellite imagery, researchers have prepared a ‘Good Maps’ of the Roman Empire. They have mapped around 300,000 kilometres of roads, including 110,000 kilometers of ...

Aerial imagery mapping hundreds of South Downs archaeological sites from the Neolithic period to the Second World War features in new research. Historic England analysed more than 9,500 aerial ...

More than 500,000 images, such as this one of Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall, were used for the map More than half a million aerial images of historical sites in England have been used for a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: And so to those pictures taken from the sky over 70 years ago, to track what used to be ...

Historic England has launched an interactive online map revealing aerial photographs of the East of England over the past 100 years. The new Aerial Photography Explorer allows users for the first time ...

Historical England has launched its online aerial photograph explorer tool, making over 400,000 aerial photographs available – including these three historical images from Sheffield and Rotherham. Did ...

Soon-to-be Master of Information (MI) graduate, Jesse Burgess, shared his recent experience creating an interactive index map to historical aerial photographs for the Halifax Municipal Archives.