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New discoveries at Hadrian's Wall are changing the picture of what life was like on the border of the Roman Empire
The Romans launched several invasions and kept 10% of the entire army in the province but failed to conquer the whole island. Instead, a militarized frontier divided the island in two — marked by the ...
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 ...
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 ...
To Caledonian tribesmen, it must have looked awesome. At Winshields Crags, the highest point of Hadrian’s Wall, the fortification runs toweringly atop a steep escarpment. For the legionaries who built ...
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