Hadrian’s Wall is a symbol of LGBT history, English Heritage has said. The 1,900-year-old structure in northern England is known as one of the best-preserved relics of the Roman Empire. But perhaps ...

In 122 AD, Roman emperor Hadrian ordered the building of a wall to mark his empire’s British frontier. How long did it take ...

An ancient quarry near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England offers a smutty glimpse into the lives of the Roman soldiers who built the famous fortification. Archaeologists from the U.K.’s Newcastle ...

What it is: A defensive wall built by the Romans that once guarded the empire's northernmost frontier in England. Construction started around A.D. 122, after a visit to Britain by Emperor Hadrian ...

Two millennia ago, the Roman Empire reached the limits of its power in Britain. The island marked the northernmost border of the Roman Empire and the point at which the ancient superpower's expansion ...

Illegal metal detectors have been targeting a section of Hadrian’s Wall, digging more than 50 holes in the 1,880-year-old World Heritage Site, according to archaeologists. The holes were found at the ...

Hadrian's Wall has long attracted hikers and history buffs and is now the heart of an 84-mile-long National Trail that winds through some of England's most scenic countryside, following in the ...

Hadrian’s Wall was damaged during the felling of a nearby world-famous tree, inspectors have found. The Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland, believed to have been about 300 years old, was cut down ...

March 6 (UPI) --Hadrian's Wall runs 73 miles across northern England from the North Sea in the east to the Irish Sea in the west, marking the northern frontier of the Roman Empire in 122 A.D. Made of ...

Hadrian's Wall served as the most northerly frontier of the Roman Empire for 300 years. The wall is located in northern England, runs for about 74 miles (118 kilometers) between Bowness-on-Solway in ...