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A 2,000 year-old Roman painting was found at a construction site in central London. This painting frescoes probably the earliest of its kind in the UK. Which features natural scenery with deer and birds that may never be used as a living room wall paintings by rich people.
Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) carefully dig up artifacts by using Excavator at 21 Lime Street near Leandehall Market in central London.
They said that the painting was found lying face down on the ground on a possible wall toppled and closed below the soil around AD 100 when the Roman government to make way for the construction of the civic center for the city Basilia.
Ancient painting
This painting has been weathered by rock and metal that not many ancient walls survived. As a well-known examples of Pompeii. The town is preserved by volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. But in London, complete painting is much rarer although fragments of Roman wall plaster have been discovered before, said Archaeology of MOLA.
These newly discovered painting by using paint fresco millimeters thick it may be one of the oldest of its kind works of art that survived from Roman times Britain.
Painting 5 feet (1.5 meters) with a width of 8 feet (2.5 meters) is lifted from the ground at the construction Lime Street is still in a state wrapped. After further research in laboratories, the researchers found the natural scenery with deer and blue-green bird on the vine.
"This is a conservation project that is really challenging and also beneficial," said Liz Goodman a arkeology konsevator to MOLA. "We are working against time to uncover the paintings are large and fragile. But this is the joy of its own to reveal the decorative plaster walls that have not been seen for 2,000 years.
The discovery of Ancient Painting
Until now, archaeologists are still studying painting and mencatanya to get a better idea of what life was like part of London during the Roman period. But they say that this painting likely adorned the living room wall of a private house of the rich where guests entertained.
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