The Roman Empire built 73 miles of wall to fortify its northern border in Great Britain. In AD 122, the Emperor Hadrian ordered its construction, and it remained the empire's border fortification for ...

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 ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were ...

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can ...

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...

Learn how parasites preserved in an ancient sewer reveal how disease spread among Roman soldiers.

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts told Live Science. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Scientific research has just revealed that Roman soldiers defending the northern frontier of Britannia faced an invisible enemy perhaps even more debilitating than the tribes beyond Hadrian's Wall. A ...

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...

The wall stretched for 73 miles. The Roman Empire built 73 miles of wall to fortify its northern border in Great Britain. In AD 122, the Emperor Hadrian ordered its construction, and it remained the ...