If Walls Could Talk: Reconstructing Roman London’s Fashionable Frescos

If Walls Could Talk - Current Archaeology

Reconstructing Roman London’s fashionable frescos Han Li, MOLA’s Senior Building Material Specialist, works to reconstruct some of thethousands of fragments of Roman frescos that have been recoveredfrom the site of The Liberty in Southwark. IMAGE: © MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) Recent excavations in Southwark have uncovered one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever found in London. Carly Hilts spoke to Han Li abou…

If walls could talk: Reconstructing Roman London’s fashionable frescos

Recent excavations in Southwark have uncovered one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever found in London. Carly Hilts spoke to Han Li about ongoing efforts to piece this 2,000-year-old jigsaw puzzle back together.