Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Third century baths and latrine block at Vindolanda, the Roman fort close to Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. “The study of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roman Soldier looking out at the horizon Roman soldiers garrisoned at the fort of Vindolanda, located near Hadrian's Wall in ...
A phallus-shaped good luck charm from the Roman era was found inside the wall of a fort. Screengrab from The Vindolanda Trust's Facebook post Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern ...
Archeologists at a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall have uncovered a penis-shaped pendant thought to have been used as good luck charm. Recent excavations at Vindolanda, a fort just south of the ...
From party invitations to requests for warm socks, letters discovered at Vindolanda, England gave first-hand accounts of everyday life inside a Roman fort. Roman outpostAn aerial view shows the ...
For decades, Vindolanda has offered historians a detailed view into daily life on the Roman Empire’s northern frontier. Now, new scientific findings from its sanitation system have uncovered a chronic ...
We’ll never know what was written on the first Vindolanda tablet found in modern times. The postcard-sized wafer of wood was discovered in 1973, during excavations of a 1900-year-old Roman fort in the ...
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 ...