What it is: A defensive wall built by the Romans that once guarded the empire's northernmost frontier in England. Construction started around A.D. 122, after a visit to Britain by Emperor Hadrian ...
A historian has uncovered prehistoric, Roman and civil war artefacts beneath British farmland, revealing how everyday fields ...
The remains of one of Britain's largest Roman amphitheatres can still be visited for free in the Cotswolds ...
ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island into an industrial powerhouse, particularly by means of large-scale extraction and ...