Antikes Rom: Lapis Niger ab 2009 wieder zu sehen

Rediscovered in the late 19th-century in excavations undertaken by Italian archaeologist Giacomo Boni, the Lapis Niger has been off limits to visitors in the past decades, as it is beneath a concrete covering that Bottini says is decaying. Thus the soprintendenza plans to remove the old cover over the shrine and erect a hut-like structure that will allow visitors to the Forum to view the excavations.
Work is scheduled to begin in December and is part of a larger plan to improve Rome’s archaeological area as a way of celebrating the 2000th anniversary of the birth of the Roman Emperor Vespasian in 2009.

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