London open since Roman times and rare wall murals
Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and carefully excavated Roman artifacts in central London, 21 Lime Street, Leadenhall Market were digging near the site, the construction of an office building.
They say newly uncovered fresco was discovered face down in the dirt. Painted wall and toppled possibility E 100, the Roman builders area flattened the city, the Basilica of the stage to make way for the construction of the civic center was sealed around the underground.
The pictures are much weaker than the stone and metal craft, it retained many ancient wall murals survive in the archaeological record. There Pompeii, the city that the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. But London was preserved in ash, full of paintings, are exceedingly rare, although fragments of Roman wall plaster have been found before the well-known examples, Mola archaeologists said. New fresco, the painted surface is just a millimeter thick, it’s like living at the time of Roman Britain to be one of the oldest artifacts, he said.
Lime Street at the construction site, painted plaster were removed from the ground in 16 sections, is still kept in the dirt. A “microexcavation” after archaeologists in a laboratory to see what the painting looked like the live stream were able: the red panels on the sides and in the center, there was the deer reach their necks were filled with green and black vertical panels a set of blue-green birds and a fine of nearly 8 feet (2.5 meters) above fresco measures woven around a candle left holder.What at trees and 5 feet (1.5 meters) high nibble.
“This is a very challenging but rewarding conservation project, the” Liz Goodman, Mola an archaeological conservator, said in a statement. “We are working on this huge and delicate fresco against the clock, but the decorative plaster that had not been seen for nearly 2,000 years to highlight was a pleasure.”
During Roman times, the researchers still life was like in this part of town to get a better idea of painting and studying the archaeological record of the site, but most likely he’s painting of a reception room adorned the wall of a private house, where the guests were entertained.