Some of the most extraordinary finds from the Roman empire are coming from one site on Hadrian’s Wall: Vindolanda ... “Because it happened so many times, the bottom five or six layers are ...

Hadrian’s Wall, built in 122 CE, is a defensive wall running for 73 miles (or 80 Roman miles) across the very north of England from coast to coast. Archaeologists have been working for many ...

Hadrian’s Wall, in England ... Ten years of frenzied digging uncovered a third-century Roman city frozen in time. Fragments of plaster still cling to mud-brick and stone walls, and the rooms ...

The Roman Army began constructing Hadrian’s Wall back in the year 122 AD as part ... History enthusiasts may need longer if they wish to spend time exploring the remnants of forts, mile castles ...

Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was built ... The wall is 120 km long and was the furthest frontier of the Roman Empire, apart for the short time that the Romans occupied the Antonine Wall.

The first Roman settlement at the site of Vindolanda was built between A.D. 74 and 85 just a mile south of where Hadrian’s Wall would be constructed decades later. Vindolanda would remain vital ...

A Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall has been donated to the nation by ... to own Carrawburgh Roman Fort. "The time has come to pass on this amazing site as a gift to the nation." Legal ownership ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

“Looks like we brought the weather with us from California,” the elderly tourist says, pulling on a hat and strolling past me. He disappears up a grass slope, beneath a brilliant, blue sky ...

Steve Blair, who manages the closest pub, the Twice Brewed Inn, said at the time that ... considered one of Hadrian's Wall's "big three" alongside Vindolanda and Housesteads Roman forts.

Frank Pearson A talk in Preston will compare the Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of Chin ...

Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was built ... The wall is 120 km long and was the furthest frontier of the Roman Empire, apart for the short time that the Romans occupied the Antonine Wall.