Hadrian’s Wall — the inspiration for Game of Thrones’ Wall — was built by the Romans in the second century A.D. in what is ...

The wall's rampart was 39,726 Roman paces or 36 miles ... The Antonine Wall served to protect the province of Britainnia from the Caledonian tribes. If they did attempt to raid across the wall ...

In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...