Rome’s Metro line C – The Continuing Story
by meggie on Oct.26, 2009, under Academics and News, Archaeology
It was a wonderful day in archaeology when Rome’s Metro line C construction project was approved. It seems that every 30 metres or so, workers uncover something new and wonderful under the streets of the Eternal City and have to pause construction while every available archaeologist flocks to the site to get it recorded before the line continues on.
Most recently, the Athenaeum of the Emperor Hadrian (AD/CE 117-138) – constructed after one of many visits to the Greek East – has been discovered and is under the watchful eye of archaeologists while construction workers look on.
Previously, temples, tombs, and the remnants of buildings following the Great Fire in AD/CE 65 have also been identified.
What else will come to light while Rome tries to expand its underground transit system? Only time will tell.
