A Roman history buff has said she was ‘blown away’ after discovering she was sitting just a few feet above a newly excavated ancient site from where London was governed 2,000 years ago.

ramparts repaired or of crude huts squatting in the ruins. Yet over the last 80 years we have rediscovered Roman London in the city’s basements and sewers. Destruction has been the harbinger.

Owners plan to revamp the new building design to make the ruins accessible to the public. All it took to find what experts are calling one of the greatest Roman era discoveries in London history ...

Archaeologists excavating the site of a planned 32-story skyscraper in London uncovered the ruins of a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman basilica. The ancient basilica, constructed between 78 and 84 A.D ...

And yet London still seemed to be a powerful draw ... Wren took rather less care about the substantial Roman ruins he uncovered while digging the foundations for St. Paul’s Cathedral.

The ruins have been found underneath 85 Gracechurch ... what it would have been like to stand on the stage of early Roman London’. Cool, right? Don’t get too excited just yet.

"This is so significant - this is the heart of Roman London," said Sophie Jackson ... This discovery has changed plans for the building’s owners, Hertshten Properties. The ruins will be fully ...

“It kind of towers above the city. And so it’s a real symbol of Roman power and authority.“We’re talking about the early stages of London here, but it’s a real sign of investment in the ...

It will include a new public hall and exhibition space. But archaeological investigations by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) have uncovered Roman ruins dating to the 1 st century AD and ...

This would be the only publicly visible display of London’s first Roman Basilica. The ruins would have once formed part of the “beating heart of Roman London” - where political, social and commercial ...