English Heritage said: “To understand Hadrian’s Wall you have to understand the Roman emperor who built it – his career, his life and the times in which he lived.” To this day, Hadrian’s ...

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 ...

Archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Blaundos, located in Uşak Province in western Turkey, revealed a marble inscription dedicated to Roman Emperor Hadrian, Anadolu Agency reported.

An curved arrow pointing right. A very old stone bearing the name of Roman Emperor Hadrian was found, and it's telling archaeologists all sorts of interesting things about his visit to Jerusalem ...

Antoninus Pius was the man who gave his name to the Antonine Wall of 142 AD, which runs between the the Rivers Clyde and ...

The Roman system of controlling of the tribes north of Hadrian's Wall broke down. Scouting was abandoned and forts like ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

By 209 AD attacks by Scottish tribes at Hadrian’s Wall were so bad that the Roman Emperor himself had to lead a Roman army back into Scotland to tackle the Scottish tribes. Next, he marched ...

This story appears in the September 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Bouncing along a dusty Bavarian logging road, archaeologist Claus-Michael Hüssen keeps his eyes on the tree line to ...