The ruins of the oldest Romanian basilica in London were discovered at the construction site in the heart of the United Kingdom’s capital

Archaeologists have revealed the remains of the oldest old Roman church in London at the 32 -storey skyscrapers site, directly in the heart of what was known as Londinium. Excavations on the bottom floor of a building that is scheduled to be demolished to make way for the new tower in 85 Gracechurch Street to detect the walls, trust, staffs, and institutions with three feet, depth 13 feet and about thousands of millennium.

Sophie Jackson of the London Museum described it as “one of the most important discoveries” for years in the oldest quarter in the British capital, the city of London-a square financial region, where the modern boycott stands at the top of the Victorian residue, medieval structures and offenses much.

Scientists say they discovered the foundations of a two -storey building that was larger than the Olympic pool. It was built between 78 and 84 AD, after about three decades after the Romanian forces invaded the British islands and about 20 years after the Queen of Celtic Bodica’s forces dismissed the emerging settlement.

The basilica was part of the forum, or the social, political and commercial heart of London, or Lundnemium, as it was called, as people went to shop, mixing, searching for justice and hearing the latest decrees of political leaders. The newly discovered remains are part of the court, a high area in the forum where politicians and officials have made decisions on city governance.

“We are talking about the early stages of London here,” said Andrew Henderson Schwartz, head of the General Impact at the London Museum. “But it is a real sign of investing in the city, even in its early stages.”

The developer, Hertshten Properties, who owns the site and has a plan to plan a new office, agreed to integrate the remains into his plans and display them in the visitor center.

Henderson Schwartz said the extent of the “huge” institutions that were discovered in many of the test drillings dug by archaeologists indicate a “unusual” level to maintain the ruins of the building.

More drilling can answer interesting questions, including the reason for using the original forum for only 20 years before being replaced much more, which has been in use until the collapse of Roman rule in Britain three centuries later. Elements such as writing tablets and style – even old garbage – can offer glimpses in the daily life of the Romanian population of London.

Britain’s real estate developers have to bring archaeologists as consultants as part of the construction planning process, a practice that discovered discoveries from Anglo -Saxon jewelry remains Central hurry Ice slices of skeletons One of the victims of the plague in the fourteenth century.

The latest discovery adds to the Roman monuments of London that can be seen throughout the city, including a section of the old wall that once surrounded in Lrexenium, which is part of the runway and the temple to the Mithras that lies in an inconsistent manner under the headquarters of the modern headquarters of the Bloomberg Information Company.

“We have these small windows in Roman London, which are located throughout the city,” said Henderson Schwartz. “But this is in fact in some ways the site that connects them all together. This is the heart of Rome in London, where all decisions have been made.”

Elsewhere in England, archaeologists recently discovered. “Mysterious mass“A purple material was in the Roman times worthy of gold, and hiding from the coins At a value of more than $ 125,000 It dates back to the era of Emperor Nero.