The wall is the largest Roman archaeological feature in Britain and was built to defend the northernmost limit of the Roman ...

When archaeologists unearth ancient shoes, the artifacts are usually about the same size as the footwear we use today. However, during recent excavations in northern England, researchers were ...

Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the ...

Hadrian came to Britain in AD 122 and, according to a biography written 200 years later, ‘put many things to right and was the first to build a wall 80 miles long from sea to sea to separate the ...

A total of 13 phallus carvings have been found at the site, near Hexham, more than any other location along Hadrian's Wall, which stretches across the north of England from Wallsend on the River ...

The 10th legion Fretensis, garrisoned in Jerusalem, dedicated the monument to Hadrian at the city’s entrance before his visit. Two years after Hadrian’s visit came the Bar Kochba revolt, the ...

A very old stone bearing the name of Roman Emperor Hadrian was found, and it's telling archaeologists all sorts of interesting things about his visit to Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.

The existence of the 2,000-year-old stone fragment, discovered in recent months during salvage excavations north of the Damascus Gate by the Israel Antiquities Authority, was announced Tuesday.

After Hadrian's 138 AD death, Emperor Antoninus Pius decided to move the frontier northwards, leaving the Wall and starting construction on a turf barrier known as the Antonine Wall in 142 AD.

This story contains language some readers may find offensive. Historians were left blushing when they deciphered ancient Roman graffiti carved into stone near Hadrian's Wall. The insulting comment ...