Vespasian added a crown to the statue and rededicated it to the Roman sun god, Sol. Around A.D. 128, the emperor Hadrian had the statue moved to the northwest side of what was then known as the Fl ...

A temple to Aphrodite had been raised up by the Emperor Hadrian upon Golgotha, to defile and cover with oblivion the place where the saving Passion had been suffered. The venerable Helen had the ...

Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was built to mark the boundaries of the Roman Empire and to keep the Scots out. Constructed after the visit of Emperor Hadrian in 122 AD by the Roman army ...

A bronze Statue of Septimus Severus outside ... By 209 AD attacks by Scottish tribes at Hadrian’s Wall were so bad that the Roman Emperor himself had to lead a Roman army back into Scotland ...

A LOCAL metal detectorist has unearthed a unique Roman coin displaying Emperor Hadrian whilst at Carlisle’s Roman Bathhouse dig site in the Cricket Club grounds. The coin, part of the ...

Hadrian’s Wall, built in 122 CE, is a defensive wall running for 73 miles (or 80 Roman miles) across the very north of England from coast to coast. Archaeologists have been working for many ...