a hatch in a busy Lisbon street opens to reveal steps leading to one of the Portuguese capital's most ancient sites: a 2,000-year-old Roman structure that still holds the buildings above it together.

LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese archaeologists digging near one of Lisbon's most iconic restaurants, the Solar dos Presuntos (Manor of Hams), have discovered a large Roman cemetery holding 2,000 ...

THE REDISCOVERY OF ROMAN LISBON The first traces of Felicitas Iulia Olisipo surfaced when Lisbon began to be rebuilt after the great earthquake of 1755. That's when buildings like the Roman ...