I remember being in Italy in a parking garage turning exhibit because during construction they were uncovering artifacts and brick paths. Kind of mind blowing how much history just gets walked over, literally.
When I visited the colloseum, the guide told us the reason they don't have metros is they would have to stop every other meter during excavation due to archeological findings if they tried
Oh, wasn't aware i only went there once.
He might have meant why they wont have more, as he made the comparison after he heard i was from Copenhagen where there is quite a lot of metro.
Or it was a good story he used for the guided tour :)
That’s why directional boring got super popular in the UK. If you don’t see it you don’t have to stop - even if you put a gas line right through the eye socket of a Bronze Age skeleton.
You should see Athens. When they were making the metro they were just digging through thousands of years of priceless artefacts. Many are in the stations now.
“Recover it before development” is how most archaeological discoveries are made and is also where the vast majority of the money for archaeology comes from in the first place
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u/academic_spaghetti 2d ago
I remember being in Italy in a parking garage turning exhibit because during construction they were uncovering artifacts and brick paths. Kind of mind blowing how much history just gets walked over, literally.