At the foot of Hadrian’s Wall, at the northernmost outpost of the Roman Empire, soldiers were not only fighting the Pictish tribes; they were also writing letters home, drafting military reports, and ...

Volunteers recently unearthed an ancient depiction of a Roman goddess while digging near a historic British landmark. The sandstone carving was found at Vindolanda, a fort in Northumberland, near ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest leather sole found at the Magna Fort spans about 12.8 inches (32.6 cm) in length. - The Vindolanda Trust An ancient ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: About 2,000 years ago, Roman soldiers dug a deep and narrow defensive ditch on the outside of a fort in an attempt to stymie oncoming enemies who ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Romans began their conquest of Britain. The time between when Roman boats landed on British shores in 43 A.D. to the establishment of their empire’s northern border was ...

An inch-long phallus discovered during excavations at a Roman fort in Northumberland has been described as a "wonderful little artefact". In Roman times, the phallic symbol was widely used as a lucky ...

Volunteers working at an ancient Roman fort discovered a relief of a goddess in the rubble, officials said. Screengrab from The Vindolanda Trust's Facebook post Centuries ago, a 73-mile-long stone ...

Archaeologists have long known that life on the Roman frontier was harsh, but new microscopic evidence from Hadrian’s Wall shows just how miserable daily existence could be for the troops who guarded ...

A phallus-shaped good luck charm from the Roman era was found inside the wall of a fort. Screengrab from The Vindolanda Trust's Facebook post Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern ...