Road rehabilitation works in the historical center of Bucharest have stuck some three months after initiation as experts are trying to solve the issue of protection of new archeological findings: digs revealed an old road that connected a former “Old Princely Court” to a nearby inn as well as other vestiges of centuries-old items, HotNews.ro reads on March 20, 2007.
The road works are part of a major plan launched by Bucharest officials to partially redraw the landscape of old Bucharest, a city that has been drastically changed under communism.Digs revealed archeological items dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. Should other, older objects be discovered, the site may be isolated by a glass screen to protect the findings until a solution is found.Bucharest Museum chief archeologist Gheorghe Adamesteanu has said that unless such older objects are found, the archeological side may be temporarily be covered in sand.
But the issue poses a major issue to architects over viewing the rehabilitation works as they are pressed by both archeologists and by Bucharest mayor Adriean Videanu, who’s pushing for works to be concluded as soon as possible.The historical center of Bucharest was declared a national interest objective in 2001.
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The “Old Princely Court” area can be identified with the medieval history of Bucharest, though continuity of human life in this part of the town dates back to the 10th and 4th centuries b.C., as attested by archaeological findings. In the absence of old drawings, scale models or engravings, and having at hand few and incomplete documents drawn by medieval Romanian chroniclers, or by foreign travellers, Romanian specialists find it difficult to recuperate the original design of the princely residence.
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