General view of the site of the Roman fort of Vindolanda on the Wall of Hadrian. Credit: Mike Bishop / Wikimedia Commons A study by the British Museum reveals that the scribes of the fort used black ...

Now, an advanced sewer system might have been installed at the famous Hadrian’s Wall, but the Roman soldiers suffered from at least three different parasites, according to a new study. Recently ...

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Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall were infected by parasites that cause serious stomach upsets, reveals new research. An analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to the ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian’s Wall, has shown that the occupants were infected by three types of intestinal parasite – roundworm, whipworm, and ...

An ancient Roman mystery is afoot in the rolling hills of northern Britain. Archaeologists have unearthed a stash of unusually large shoes at the ruins of a first-century military fort along Hadrian’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient statue depicting the Roman goddess of victory has been unearthed at Hadrian’s Wall (The Vindolanda Trust) An ancient ...

Volunteers recently unearthed an ancient depiction of a Roman goddess while digging near a historic British landmark. The sandstone carving was found at Vindolanda, a fort in Northumberland, near ...