A Spanish farmer thought he had found a few broken scraps of bronze. Instead, the fragments belonged to an ancient cup, which carried the names of Roman forts nearly 2,000 kilometers away. The ...

The artifact is decorated with an illustration of the defensive fortification in northern England, but it was unearthed some ...

A recent discovery in central Spain has provided archaeologists with a fascinating glimpse into the lives and travels of Roman soldiers. A 1,900-year-old bronze vessel, known as the Berlanga Cup, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hadrian's Wall stretches 73 miles across Northumberland, Cumbria and Tyne and Wear - Marc Guitard/Moment Hadrian’s Wall is a ...

Archaeologists recently analyzed a broken, decorative cup found unexpectedly on a Spanish farm. The cup appears to represent ...

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 ...

Ancient Rome continues to fascinate us, with each new generation seeing echoes of its own hopes and fears in the rise and fall of an empire that seems simultaneously modern and alien. Only a handful ...

When the Roman emperor Hadrian ascended to power in A.D. 117, he inherited a state in crisis. Trajan, his predecessor, had stretched the Roman Empire to its furthest reaches through aggressive ...