Archeoforum

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The Archéoforum or Archéoforum de Liège is a preserved archaeological site and an archaeological museum in the Belgian city of Liège. The museum is located under the Place Saint-Lambert on the site of the former Saint-Lambertus Cathedral.

History: The Saint-Lambertus Cathedral was a large Gothic cathedral, which was completely destroyed during the Liège Revolution (1789-1795) and the subsequent French Time (1794-1814) because it was seen as a symbol of the ecclesiastical and prince-bishopal power against which one rebelled. A large square, Place Saint-Lambert, was built at the site of the former cathedral in the nineteenth century. In the course of the 20th century several acheological excavations took place. The excavation by Paul Lohest in 1907, which followed the accidental discovery of the hypocaustum of a Gallo-Roman villa during the construction of gas pipes in 1905, was striking. The foundations of the Gothic cathedral and its Romanesque predecessors were partly excavated. In the 1960s and 1970s there were plans for large-scale infrastructure projects that threatened the site (e.g. underground car park...