Romans living in ancient Britain were plagued by intestinal parasites, all of which are spread by fecal contamination ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely ...

Archaeologists have long known that life on the Roman frontier was harsh, but new microscopic evidence from Hadrian’s Wall ...

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were ...

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts told Live Science.

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can ...

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian’s Wall, has shown that the occupants were ...

A new ranger will help restore natural habitats in a national park by training volunteers to help in conservation efforts.

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...

Hadrian’s Wall stretched 80 Roman miles, from coast to coast. A monumental feat of engineering that marked the edge of the ...

When the emperor Hadrian visited the province of Britannia in A.D. 122, he was in full command of the entire Roman Empire, which stretched some 2,500 miles east from northern Great Britain to ...