Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first Roman basilica underneath the basement of an office block. The basilica was ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of London's earliest-known ancient Roman basilica on the site of a planned 32-story skyscraper, right in the heart of what was once known as Londinium.

Roman Londinium was an area centred on the north bank of the Thames and roughly corresponding to the modern City of London. Although abandoned in the 5th century, Londinium's layout determined ...

The remarkably well-preserved basilica was part of a public meeting place where citizens and politicians could socialize, ...

Roman Londinium was an area centred on the north bank of the Thames and roughly corresponding to the modern City of London. Although abandoned in the 5th century, Londinium's layout determined the ...

At some point in the 400s, a Saxon wandering in Roman Londinium’s ruins dropped his brooch on top of the fallen-in tiles of a decayed Billingsgate bath house. Whether he was scrabbling over the ...

A discovery underneath the basement of an office block has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history unearthed in the city of London. Archaeologists have found a substantial ...

But they were only recognised as remains of the social and civic centre of Londinium in 1923. Peter Marsden, the author of The Roman Forum Site in London (1987), compiled disconnected evidence for ...

Delicious industry dining, a Roman footprint in the Square Mile, brokers on the box and a competitive rowing career - what ...

"We do have these little windows into Roman London that are all over the ... that once stood at the heart of the city known as Londinium. Excavations in the basement of a building slated to ...

when it would have been demolished and replaced by a much larger second forum, reflecting the rapid growth and importance of Londinium in the Roman Empire.