Down the drain is where British archaeologists recently discovered 36 artfully engraved semiprecious stones, in an ancient bathhouse at the site of a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall in Carlisle ...

A massive altar dedicated to an eastern cult deity has emerged during excavations of a Roman fort in northern England. Weighing 1.5 tons, the four-foot high ornately carved stone relic, was ...

It is believed the site was used through the Dark Ages, although it was difficult to trace what what went on there after 1092 when King William II England built the first medieval castle within the ...

A rare archaeological object, thought to be the only one of its type in the Roman Empire, has been discovered in Carlisle. A lump of a soft mysterious purple substance was discovered in the drains ...

Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...

Its remains were found inside a large Roman fort attached to Hadrian’s Wall, the northernmost point of the expansive Roman Empire. ... Carlisle is about 100 miles south of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Ever since the chance discovery in 2017 of a Roman bath house on land owned by Carlisle Cricket Club, the site has generated huge excitement.. Investigations led by archaeology firm Wardell ...

Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...

FEARS over flooding have dealt a major blow to the dream of creating a permanent exhibition venue for the "Premier League" Roman archaeology found in north Carlisle. The chance discovery last year ...

The 2nd-century Greco-Roman scholar Julius Pollux even immortalized the discovery of the pigment in his story about Hercules’s dog finding and biting a sea snail, which stained its tongue purple.

A new book details the stories of those who lived, worked, and were buried in Carlisle nearly 2,000 years ago. The publication, titled "Life and Death in Roman Carlisle: Excavations at 107-117 ...