(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 27 - Forty years after the last campaign, excavation is resumed in the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum.
The works, which will be started shortly, will affect the area of the Antica Spiaggia, the lido of the Roman Herculaneum, already partially excavated in the 1980s, when the front of the city towards the sea was brought to light.
This was announced by the director of the Park, Francesco Sirano, who underlines: "They will be investigations conjugated in close relationship with the anthropological, geological, paleobotanical, conservation aspects, creating a stable connection with the present and remote public".
The beach is now about 4 meters below the current sea level, a condition that has always posed problems of water regulation.
And precisely to solve these critical issues, the specialists of the Herculaneum Conservation Project highlighted a further part of the beach between 2007 and 2010, finding archaeological evidence of both the most ancient phases of the city and the eruption era.
Hence the project that starts this week.
The new excavations will make it possible to reach the level of the beach as it appeared at the time of the eruption also on the west side.
The works will aim at restoring the ancient buildings by also bringing back the sand so that you can return to walk on the ancient coast with a hitherto unpublished path that will reach the Villa of the Papyri, finally putting the two areas of the ancient Herculaneum together from sempreseparate.
"We are resuming the research on the ground with renewed awareness of the complexity of the site and, thanks to a multidisciplinary approach, we expect further and solid insights", Sirano explains, underlining that the project was "implemented in synergy with HCP, a further piece that demonstrates how a public collaboration is possible -private for the benefit of the public good and of the actors who participate in it ".
The works will last two and a half years and will be supervised by a multidisciplinary team made up of technicians from the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and the Herculaneum Conservation Project.
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