ANCIENT ROME
UNCOVERING OLD REMAINS
ROME, May 8,
The work of demolishing the remaining dwelling houses on the triangular plot of land separating the Imperial. Way from the market 0r,.. Trajan in Rome Ims now been almost Only a small and historically unimjopjK •taut church remains standing, and in a few weeks time the .ground will be broken up. It will then lie dug down to the level of the ancient city, thus leaving tho Imperial Way, which was opened last year, to stand like a viaduct conveying the traffic of modern Rome across the ruins of the past, for on the opposite fide it already flanks the Roman Forum.
The present work will also open the main portion of the Forum of Trajan, of which only the northern corner had hitherto been excavated, and the Senator Ccrrado Kieei, who is in charge, uepos to find, in the centre some truce of the famous equestrian statue of the Emperor, whose name the.. Forum bears.
- Meanwhile, across on the other side of the Imperial Way, the excavation of the Temple of Venus., continues, and the architectural-features.-of the building can he clearly seen.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1933, Page 6
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