2023-07-08 01:43:10
History never ceases to amaze us when, from time to time, it emerges from the trunks of the forgotten passage of time, to become present before our eyes and give us a magnificent proof of times past. Times that were the glory of the human era before ours, which is the cornerstone of the present in which we live now.
An example of this is that archaeologists are constantly working to dust off a little bit of those vestiges that, upon seeing them, would make us feel that they can tell us the history of the world in which they lived.
A few days ago, the archaeological discovery of an ancient marble head, “integral” and in good condition, was made. It was during the remodeling works of a central square in Rome, Italy.
“Rome continues to return precious testimonies of its past: a splendid fully preserved marble head was found during the works on Piazza Augusto Imperatore. Archaeologists and restorers are working to clean and study the finding”, detailed the mayor of the city, Roberto Gualtieri, in his social networks.
Despite the passage of time, this marble piece, which seems to represent a female face, clearly preserves its structure and details such as the waves of the hair, lips, nose and eyes. As we mentioned before, this discovery was made during the restoration works of Piazza Augusto Imperatore, which the city council of the capital has begun to rehabilitate, following decades of being abandoned.
This square is an interesting site for archaeology: on the banks of the Tiber river and in the Campo Marte area, it is delimited by the Ara Pacis museum, which houses the altar that Augustus (the first emperor of Rome) had built in the year 9 BC to celebrate the pacification. In its center stood the mausoleum of Augustus, the majestic circular tomb that the emperor had built for his dynasty two thousand years ago.
This building had remained in ruins and was practically hidden in the weeds in the square and surrounded by fences, since the last emperor buried there was Nerva, at the end of the first century of our era; For this reason, it was not until 2020 that visits to its interior began to be allowed and now the city council is working to fix the entire square.
As if that were not enough, its rich materials, marble, metal and sculptures, were looted and used to rebuild the city in the 16th century.
The Colonna family bought the tomb to turn it into a medieval fortress, and in the 18th century it ended up in the hands of the Portuguese Correia, who ended up renting it to the Spanish Bernardo Matas to organize bullfights.
At the end of the 19th century, the Italian State acquired its property and turned it into an auditorium with a glass and steel dome, where concerts were held. But this changed in the 20s of the last century, when everything that was added modernly was ordered to be demolished and an excavation was ordered to search for the remains of the tomb of Augustus.
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