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 ...

the Temple of Saturn, the Arch of Titus and the House of the Vestal Virgins, among other structures. Recent travelers called a visit to the Roman Forum a "must," but they do advise future visitors ...

symbol of the Roman state. Although a classical temple was constructed to the west of the exterior of Londinium’s Flavian forum, it was clearly separate. No forum in Britannia was dominated by a ...

The basilica was part of the forum, the social, political and commercial heart of Roman London ... a portion of an amphitheater and a temple to the god Mithras that lies incongruously under ...

The basilica was part of London’s Roman forum, or public square ... it incorporated the 2,000-year-old Temple of Mithras, another relic of London’s days under Roman rule that was first ...

The vestal virgins Finally, the vestal virgins lived at the Temple of Vesta in Rome. Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the six virgins tended the sacred fire, baked sacred ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.