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Hadrian’s Wall in modern-day England marked one of the northern borders of the Roman Empire. But excavations along the wall are bringing to light a hidden history of the army and the Roman ...
After four years of reconstruction, the remains of a painted wall in Roman London, founded in AD 43, have a big story to tell. Since 2021, archaeologists from the The Museum of London Archaeology ...
The Roman rule of thumb was not to post soldiers in the place they came from, because of the risk of rebellion. That meant Hadrian’s Wall was a cultural melting point, with cohorts from modern ...
Archaeologists reconstructed Roman frescoes from thousands of fragments found in London, revealing rare artwork and the elite ...
Art for Roman Holidays. ... Resize. Listen (3 min) A wall painting of a seaside villa from Pompeii, mid-1st century A.D. Photo: Ministero della Cultura/Parco Archeologico di Pompei.
Could you survive as a Roman soldier on Hadrian's Wall? Join the History Hit YouTube team as we discover what life was like for Roman legionaries and auxiliary troops on the northern frontier of ...
An ancient statue depicting the Roman goddess of victory has been unearthed at Hadrian’s Wall by amateur archaeologists.. The symbolic find of the winged goddess was discovered in a reused pile ...
The site was under Roman occupation between 85 AD and 370 AD, and today is an active archaeology site with it providing an insight into the lives of people living and working near Hadrian's Wall ...
Archaeologists have unearthed one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever found in London and ...
A “jigsaw” of 2,000-year-old fragments have been pieced together by archaeologists to reveal a remarkable Roman wall painting. Pieces of the fresco were discovered on a site in central London ...
Ongoing digs at a Roman villa in the town of Villajoyosa in Spain, have revealed more than 4,000 fragments of wall paintings. The sections hint at the "rich decoration" of the stately residence ...
They’re just some of the finds from Hadrian’s Wall – the 73-mile stone wall built as the northwestern boundary of the Roman Empire, sealing off Britannia (modern-day England and Wales) from ...