The Romans. Letters from Vindolanda. A short animation for 7 to 11 year olds giving an insight into daily life in Ancient ...

A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists searching for an explanation, they told AFP on Thursday. Eight large shoes, ...

A party invitation. A broken flipflop. A wig. Letters of complaint about road conditions, and an urgent request for more beer. It sounds like the aftermath of a successful spring break, but these ...

A pair of married volunteer archaeologists working at the Vindolanda archaeological site near Northumberland recently scored a big win. Jim and Dilys Quinlan discovered a sandstone relief—a sculpture ...

Archaeologists unearthed fragile wooden tablets at Vindolanda, a Roman fort in England, revealing intimate details of daily ...

What was life like for a Roman soldier stuck in a garrison in an exposed part of the north east? The discovery of the Vindolanda tablets in a waterlogged rubbish heap means that we can make some ...

General view of the site of the Roman fort of Vindolanda on the Wall of Hadrian. Credit: Mike Bishop / Wikimedia Commons A study by the British Museum reveals that the scribes of the fort used black ...

In a picturesque Northumbrian valley a mile south of Hadrian's Wall, Andrew Birley stands surrounded by a checkerboard of Roman remains. He is supervising a small crowd of volunteer excavators ...

It was a sure bet that history enthusiasts Brent and Fiona Williams would enjoy their first visit to a Northumberland Roman fort. The couple, who own several racehorses, named one of them Vindolanda ...