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 ...

Was it a bar brawl? Archaeologists will never know what killed these two people found near an ancient Roman site.

Hadrian's Wall makes use of locally-available materials. Running for forty-five miles from the east, the Wall was built of stone. The stone wall had two outer faces of dressed stone, containing a ...

Newcastle’s tallest building Hadrian’s Tower has been put up for sale with an asking price of £14.6m. In an advert for the ...

Two-part series which explores the extraordinary landscape, oral history and archaeology of the border country created by the building of Hadrian's Wall.

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 ...

Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was built to mark the boundaries of the Roman Empire and to keep the Scots out. Constructed after the visit of Emperor Hadrian in 122 AD by the Roman army ...