After compiling findings from the 2003 to 2009 archaeological dig under the Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles) in Pisa, scholars have published photos and drawings of the extensive previously unknown structures buried under the piazza.
In 2003, while redoing the irrigation system under the grassy expanse around Pisa’s Duomo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, archaeologists uncovered a series of ruins that shed light on the usage of the area in the first millennium A.D., including an eleventh-century cathedral.
Archaeology in Piazza dei Miracoli, a 648-page volume, details the evolution of the space from residential to sacred. When the piazza was the primary gateway into Pisa from the sea in the first century, it was occupied by a Roman domus, a mansion for members of the Roman elite, that was uncovered during the excavations.
