These materials showcase many aspects, like how artisans garnered the colors they needed in yesteryears and the items that ...

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 ...

Hadrian assumed that there was a paradox about walls innate to the human condition. Scottish tribes hated Roman colonial interlopers and wanted them off the island of Britain. But for some reason ...

The walls of a Roman villa that sank beneath the waters of Lake Fusaro near Naples hundreds of years ago recently reemerged ...

On a foggy winter's day, contractors in bright orange protective clothing are hard at work building a ramp from the Grosvenor Shopping Centre car park. It's not for cars though. Instead, the ramp will ...

In the age of the Roman Empire, the Roman elite built mansions, or villas, around Lake Fusaro because of its hot springs and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of London's earliest-known ancient Roman basilica on the site ... brick and ragstone walls and foundations over three feet wide, 13 feet deep and almost ...

Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall are more than just walls. They are defensive structures with a series of forts along them, built when it was thought that the Roman invasion of Caledonia was ...

Archaeologists working at the site found “massive foundations and walls made of flint, ragstone and roman tile,” in some areas more than 10 meters (33 feet) wide, one meter (three feet ...

Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first Roman basilica underneath the basement of an office block. The basilica was ...

The best stretches are just north of the Tower of London (by Tower Hill tube station) and in Noble Street and Wallside where the Roman army had its fortress. The surviving segments are impressive, a ...