For decades, residents of busy central London who were crossing the London Bridge or heading to their offices at The Shard ...

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.

Among them are the remains of the wall which once surrounded the original city of Londinium, along with surviving parts of a fort that housed up to 1,000 soldiers. Other surviving parts of Roman ...

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 the time of the basilica's construction, Londinium's future had been recently in doubt as a major settlement, after it was sacked by a revolt against Roman rule several years earlier.

Built around 80 AD, a few decades after the Romans invaded Britain, the ancient basilica was part of a wider forum and served as a town hall for Londinium, the city's ancient Roman name.

Just like Roman citizens throughout the empire, the population of Londinium, or Roman London, enjoyed a wide range of cultural pursuits. Since the late 1800s, archaeologists have uncovered ruins ...

In this elevated space, magistrates and political leaders of ancient Londinium made significant decisions, shaping the city’s future more than 2,000 years ago. At the time, this area represented the ...

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.

Built sometime around AD 200, the London Wall — other parts of which can still be seen above ground today — was built to protect the strategically important port of Roman Londinium ...

These walls, built in around 200AD, once surrounded the Roman settlement of Londinium, which is where you’ll find the City of London today. Today, only a few short sections of the wall are ...