Revealed: London’s long-lost medieval palace recreated after 500 years

Medieval art investigator, Amanda Luyster, has managed to digitally reassemble most of a mosaic pavement design, originally created for use in the palace

Medieval jigsaw: Art historians have pieced together hundreds of tile fragments to produce this digital reconstruction of the long-lost mosaic pavement (Amanda Luyster, College of The Holy Cross)

Art historians have recreated part of the interior of London’s long-lost medieval royal palace.

Most of the vast palace complex - one of the largest in medieval England - was destroyed by fire more than five centuries ago.

Today the only major surviving palace building is Westminster Hall which still forms part of the Houses of Parliament.