Experts say the relics at Piazza Venezia appear to resemble a multistorey complex of homes and shops
The remains of homes believed to have been lived in by working-class people around the time of the early Roman empire have been found by workers building an underground station in the city’s historic centre.
The relics are the first to emerge from beneath the bustling Piazza Venezia since work began in 2023 on the station that will form part of the Italian capital’s Metro C underground line.
The ambitious project at Piazza Venezia, which will also feature an 85-metre deep underground museum stuffed with archaeological objects found during construction, is forecast to be completed in nine years.
Archaeological experts said the structure appeared to resemble a multistorey complex that would have contained shops and homes lived in by imperial Rome’s working class, between the late Roman republic and early empire – a period spanning the second and first centuries BC.
