For decades, Vindolanda has offered historians a detailed view into daily life on the Roman Empire’s northern frontier. Now, new scientific findings from its sanitation system have uncovered a chronic ...

The everyday health of Roman soldiers is rarely the center of antique history. Far from tactics and glory, a study published in Parasitology by teams from Cambridge, the University of British Columbia ...

A unique artifact discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda may have been used as a device during sex rather than as a good luck symbol, archaeologists suggest. The wooden object was initially ...

There are many surviving examples of Roman latrines, with their characteristic marble bench seating dotted with keyhole-shaped openings. The seats weren't always stone, however. There were wooden ...

In a picturesque Northumbrian valley a mile south of Hadrian's Wall, Andrew Birley stands surrounded by a checkerboard of Roman remains. He is supervising a small crowd of volunteer excavators ...

A family spending lockdown living in a Roman Fort have described it as a "surreal experience". As the UK went into lockdown Sonya and Colin Galloway, who both work for the trust that runs Vindolanda ...