From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

A metal detectorist found a hoard of coins which were used throughout the Roman period. Colin Cole unearthed a total of 16 ...

Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?

And while many of the coins portray the Roman emperor at the time they were made, two of them instead portray the emperors' wives — Faustina I, the wife of the emperor Antoninus Pius ...

The silver coins were minted over a period of more than 200 years, suggesting that Roman currency at this time was relatively stable.

Dan Snow explores the physical remains of Hadrian’s vast project of 122AD - over 80 Roman miles of wall, turrets and forts, stretching from coast to coast across northern England. Mile after ...

Certain elements appeared only much later in a monumental Roman architecture, namely in the 2nd century AD, in the times of Hadrian and Antoninus," said Fabio Bourbon, the Italian researcher. Bourbon ...

A visit by the Emperor Hadrian that year to review the border problems at the boundaries of his empire led to a more radical solution. He ordered the building of an immense barrier stretching over ...

Standing at the easternmost point of Hadrian’s Wall and guarding the mouth of the River Tyne lies the remains of the Roman fort of Segedunum. Standing at the easternmost point of Hadrian’s Wall and ...