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| | Friday, 18 October, 2002, 05:51 GMT 06:51 UK When lions prowled London A new exhibition looks back to when elephants and lions roamed London and its population could have comfortably fitted onto a double decker bus. Nearly 400 ancient objects recovered from the banks of the river Thames go on display from Friday. The new prehistoric gallery at the Museum of London looks back to the lives of the capital's earliest inhabitants over 400,000 years ago.  A look back to when lions roamed London  Westminster's river levels as they were 2,000 years ago  Queen Mary's Hospital in Carshalton was a fort  Hippos bathed where Trafalgar Square now stands  Bronze axehead found in the Thames | |
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