Jubilee: skeleton in Piazza Pia building web site, work continues

(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 24 – Throughout excavations for the underpass of Piazza Pia, between Castel Sant’Angelo and By way of della Conciliazione in Rome, a skeleton was discovered. The stays, in all probability courting again to 1600-1700, have already been cataloged by the Superintendency and brought away. That is what we be taught from the Public Works Division of Rome Capital. The work on the development web site, essentially the most consultant of the Jubilee, has not stopped and won’t cease. In accordance with what has been discovered, these findings are fairly frequent when digging deep: we’re speaking about about 5 meters for the development of the underpass. The Superintendency would have communicated to Public Works that the invention just isn’t of nice significance, definitely not sufficient to require the work to be stopped. In accordance with what has been discovered from the State Superintendency, the skeleton was present in a contemporary layer, due to this fact courting again to 1600-1700, at most to 1500. It’s an inhumation in a naked grave, that’s, whoever buried that physique had dug the earth and positioned it in there. No identifiable object was discovered. Now laboratory exams shall be performed on the stays, in order to know if it’s a man or a lady, what age it was, whether or not it was nicely fed or poorly fed, and to attempt to discover out if it had any illness and if it was reason for demise. (HANDLE).