Roman soldiers living along Britain’s northern frontier used communal bath and toilet facilities that depended on a sewer ...

Learn how parasites preserved in an ancient sewer reveal how disease spread among Roman soldiers.

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...

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

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Roman soldiers stationed on the edge of the empire faced more than cold winds, enemy raids, and ...

Scientific research has just revealed that Roman soldiers defending the northern frontier of Britannia faced an invisible enemy perhaps even more debilitating than the tribes beyond Hadrian's Wall. A ...

Roundworms are eight- to 12-inches-long and live in the intestines, They can cause abdominal pain, fever, and diarrhea. The types of roundworms typically in humans include pinworms and ascariasis, but ...

This Roman battle tactic stands as one of their greatest failures, remembered for its lack of foresight and disastrous ...

ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island into an industrial powerhouse, particularly by means of large-scale extraction and ...