Hadrian’s Wall — the inspiration for Game of Thrones’ Wall — was built by the Romans in the second century A.D. in what is ...

In 122 AD the Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of a wall: running for 120 km between the Solway and the Tyne it was designed to establish the bounds of the Roman Empire, but not of Roman ...

Hadrians Wall in Northumberland, England has been a fortified wall structure in place for just over 1,900 years: its construction began in 122 A.D., and its purpose was to separate the province of ...

When Emperor Hadrian assumed control in AD 117, he commissioned the building of a wall to fortify and safeguard the Empire’s northwest boundary. It is believed that three legions of infantrymen ...

In the History Hit documentary, Hadrian’s Wall: Building the Wall, archaeologist Frances McIntosh, a key figure in the wall’s preservation through English Heritage, explored its mysteries ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

QUINTUS:Father’s not fighting at the moment. He’s building a wall for Emperor Hadrian. CORNELIA:In Rome? QUINTUS:No, here in Britannia, up north. CORNELIA:But he’s been gone for ages.

Its location, along with a timber frame surrounding the dwelling, known as a palisade, suggested much of its construction ... that it came north of Hadrian's Wall on the cloak of a Roman soldier ...

Hadrian's Wall In 122 AD the Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of a wall: running for 120 km between the Solway and the Tyne it was designed to establish the bounds of the Roman Empire ...