According to the State Archaeological Superintendence which intervened on site, it should be a skeleton dating back to 600-700. The construction site works are proceeding as scheduled
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Macabre discovery a few meters from St. Peter’s. The workers working on the excavation of Piazza Pia, the symbolic work of the Jubilee, found a human skeleton under the road. The State Archaeological Superintendence which intervened on site announced that it should be a skeleton dating back to 600-700. Probably “a person of the people”.
The works continue
The skeleton was found without any funeral decorations and no identifiable object was found. It is an inhumation in a bare grave, that is, whoever buried that body dug the earth and placed it in there. Information regarding the date of death and sex will be provided by autopsy and instrumental examinations. The discovery had no repercussions on the construction site, we learn from sources in the Capitoline Department of Public Works. In fact, the construction site is proceeding as scheduled also because the Superintendence has already cataloged and taken away the found remains.
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The project
The construction sites in Piazza Pia for the jubilee began in August 2023 and should be completed by 8 December 2024. The project involves the extension of the underpass in Sassia to transform the area of Castel Sant’Angelo and St. Peter’s Square, as confirmed by the Capitoline Hill
