“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 ...
Hadrian's Wall was a Roman frontier built in the years AD 122-30 by order of the Emperor Hadrian. It was 73 miles long and ran from Wallsend-on-Tyne in the east to Bowness on the Solway Firth in ...
Hadrian's rule has been described as a period of consolidation, a time in which to restore order in disaffected areas of the Roman Empire, in Germany as well as in Britain. The Wall was not ...
Beyond its practical purposes, the psychological impact of the wall must have been tremendous. For nearly three centuries, ...
The Roman Army began constructing Hadrian’s Wall ... the ancient monument typically takes seven days to trek in full. History enthusiasts may need longer if they wish to spend time exploring ...
A precious gem found at Carlisle's Roman Bathhouse has illuminated the intricacies of religion on Rome's northernmost frontier.
It's rare to find gladiator memorabilia from Roman Britain, but archaeologists by Hadrian's Wall have just found a 2,000-year ...
Two men are scheduled to go on trial in Newcastle Crown Court on charges related to toppling the tree and damaging the ...
A rare Roman knife handle cast in the shape of a gladiator discovered at a Northumberland Hadrian's Wall site could be ... on the northern edge of the ancient empire. The copper alloy handle ...
London, Dec 9: It was neither Britain’s biggest tree nor its oldest. But the majestic sycamore that stood for 150 years along a stretch of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was one of the most ...
The trial of two men charged with cutting down the majestic Sycamore Gap tree last year along Hadrian’s Wall in northern ...