At Vindolanda fort, archaeologists have made an exciting discovery: a sandstone carving of a Roman guardian spirit, estimated ...
The Roman soldiers who guarded the Danube frontier almost two thousand years ago did not live on bread and vegetables alone.
Archaeologists have used declassified spy satellite imagery from the 1960s and 70s to reevaluate one of the first aerial archaeology surveys ever, revealing 396 previously undiscovered Roman forts in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roman Soldier looking out at the horizon Roman soldiers garrisoned at the fort of Vindolanda, located near Hadrian's Wall in ...
Losing a shoe is nothing new — just ask the Roman soldiers and their families who were stationed at Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary fort near Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England. They lost so many ...
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People usually picture stone walls, military forts, crumbling ruins, and the remains of an empire that announced itself through architecture and engineering when they imagine Roman Britain. What they ...
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Using declassified photos from Cold War-era spy satellites, researchers have identified hundreds of previously undiscovered ancient Roman forts in Iraq and Syria. Their findings, published last week ...
Women lived and worked in Roman military forts, according to a telltale trail of lost hairpins and beads. This dispels the notion the forts were male-only domains, says archaeologist Dr Penelope ...