Groundwork in a UK city market place revealed medieval and Roman history. Speller Metcalfe via University of Leicester A medieval building with a dark past was recently discovered during groundwork ...

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of medieval commerce and a 16th-century civic building’s foundations. Experts ...

Beneath the bustling heart of Leicester, England, archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old prison hidden under the city’s historic Market Place. What began as a routine excavation for urban ...

Leicester’s Market Place is known as the historical home of shops, but archaeologists recently discovered an on-site dungeon there, too. During excavation work, the team found the medieval dungeon, ...

LEICESTER, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a narrow shaft containing the remains of more than 100 people was discovered near Leicester Cathedral, in an area where a new heritage learning center will ...