What it is: A defensive wall built by the Romans that once guarded the empire's northernmost frontier in England. Construction started around A.D. 122, after a visit to Britain by Emperor Hadrian ...
3 years on from the illegal felling of Britain’s famous Sycamore Gap tree, new aerial images reveal how the stump is ...
It’s a brilliant, sunny day in the north of Britain and I’m standing on top of a high bank looking out over a long grassy ...
"For now, we're filled with hope by the way nature is taking its course." ...
The most famous stump in Britain is looking surprisingly vibrant. The remains of the Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian's Wall, cut ...
Stretching across northern Britain, Hadrian’s Wall marked the edge of Rome’s empire and a boundary between legionaries and local tribes. This video explores the wall’s role as a frontier line - ...
A KELSO-BORN writer and historian takes a literary walk along Hadrian’s Wall in his latest book. After the Western Empire collapsed, the ruins of Roman Britain endured, still impressive and a source ...
It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...
This summer, the Florida State University Honors Program launched a new study abroad program in London for students to discover the history and legacy of the Roman presence in Britain. Fifteen Honors ...
New shoots sprouting from the felled Sycamore Gap tree offer hope for its recovery after vandalism damaged this iconic ...
A virtual reconstruction of the Berlanga Cup 3D Stoa—Archaeology and Heritage / Cambridge University Press under CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists may have identified the origins of a recently discovered 1,900 ...
A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were infected by three types of intestinal parasite—roundworm, whipworm, and ...