Pompeii: start of securing excavation fronts

Starting ribbons for the construction site that is to secure the excavation fronts of Pompeii, or the area around the unexcavated area of the archaeological site. A total of 22 hectares will be affected by the work: two kilometers of ancient walls will be secured, the ground will undergo hydrogeological risk mitigation work, and a new laboratory will be installed to study the finds that will be unearthed during the work. The area is expected to be secured by 2019.

“This is the largest intervention in the unexcavated area of Pompeii since the postwar period,” Massimo Osanna, director general of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, told Il Mattino. “Until now we had always proceeded by small plugging interventions on the excavation fronts, in the most critical points. Now we will proceed in a radical way to consolidate the fronts and to solve the problem of water accumulating in the soils exerting pressure on the walls and facades of the domus brought to light, which ended up constituting a sort of containment embankment of the soils that impregnated with rainwater exerted pressure on them, exposing them to the danger of subsidence.”

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Pompeii: start of securing excavation fronts

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