It sounds like the aftermath of a successful spring break, but these items are nearly 2,000 years old. They’re just some of the finds from Hadrian’s Wall – the 73-mile stone wall built as the ...

Archeologists reveal 2,000-year-old wall art from ‘Beverly Hills of Roman London’ - Birds, fruit, flowers and ancient graffiti discovered on 2,000-year-old wall paintings ...

Some fragments imitate high-status wall tiles, such as red Egyptian porphyry – a crystal-speckled volcanic stone – framing the elaborate veins of African giallo antico – a yellow marble.

Antonine Wall sites near Falkirk once sported violent Roman 'propaganda' stones painted in livid, blood-red colour. Scenes of combat in which triumphant Romans crush their Celtic enemies were painted ...

Hadrian's Wall is perhaps the most famous of them all: a stretch of stone spanning 73 miles from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea, all the way west to the Solway Firth near the Irish ...

An hourlong documentary on recent findings in the ancient Roman city sheds light on the residence of a high-ranking Pompeiian ...

The barrack dates from AD105. It lies beneath the 4th-century stone Roman fort of Vindolanda, south of Hadrian's Wall, at Hexham, Northumberland.

Historians were left blushing when they deciphered ancient Roman graffiti carved into stone near Hadrian's Wall. The insulting comment, inscribed more than 1,700 years ago, was unearthed near ...

Two penises carved on a Roman wall, which were probably intended to protect citizens from evil spirits, have been discovered in Italy. The 2,000-year-old stone could reveal the origin of Aosta, a ...

Andrew Young tramps by a Roman wall (presumably Hadrian’s) and muses how “Time like a leaf down-drops” in this powerful natural environment, haunted by history. The Elgin-born Scottish ...

They’re just some of the finds from Hadrian’s Wall – the 73-mile stone wall built as the northwestern boundary of the Roman Empire, sealing off Britannia (modern-day England and Wales) from ...