The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts ...

When the emperor Hadrian visited the province of Britannia in A.D. 122, he was in full command of the entire Roman Empire, which stretched some 2,500 miles east from northern Great Britain to ...

Hadrian's Wall served as the most northerly frontier of the Roman Empire for 300 years. The wall is located in northern England, runs for about 74 miles (118 kilometers) between Bowness-on-Solway in ...

In a dense forest in southern Italy, archaeologists have discovered a Roman wall, over two millennia old, constructed to halt the infamous rebel gladiator Spartacus and his army. Built by the Roman ...

It is the largest Roman archaeological feature in Britain and stretches for a total of 73 miles or 117.5 kilometres. (the walk itself is longer but more of that later) Regarded as a British cultural ...