Bloomberg Donates 14,000 Artifacts Unearthed in Renovation to London Museum

The London Museum has received a donation of more than 14,000 Roman artifacts from the site of a 3rd century CE temple. The trove was unearthed between 2012–14, during the construction of Bloomberg’s European headquarters in London.The temple from which the artifacts came was dedicated to the Roman god Mithras. The cult was mysterious and complex, with a number of internal levels, and became known for bull sacrifice. Roman mithraeums are comprised of a long rectangular room lined wit