The photo above shows a wooden reconstruction of the wall and gatehouse at Vindolanda. The fort and the surrounding settlement lies to the south of Hadrian's Wall. Over the summer months there are ...

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 ...

They’re just some of the finds from Hadrian’s Wall – the 73-mile stone wall ... re thinking of everyday objects preserved from ancient Rome, this outpost in the wild north of the empire ...

An exhibition, open today and visitable until February 23, 2025, presents to the public imperial portraiture from Hadrian's ... monuments of ancient and contemporary Rome, our historical ...