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Re:Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancien... by pmontra on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:58PM (#17611317)
It's valuable (think about revenues from tourism) but we still have to live our lives. The ancients built on top of anything was there before. That's why we have so many archeological layers in Rome.
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Re:Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancien... by sbov on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:21PM (#17611514)
It's not valuable if all they find is standard roman clay pot # 123,312 to 124,312.

There was an article about this when they were building the tunnel in Istanbul. They did find some significant stuff, but the vast majority of it was stuff they already had tons of. They literally filled warehouses with the stuff, and dumped most of it back in because it was not rare or significant.

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Re:Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancien... by weberc2 on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @04:18PM (#17612412)
IIRC there's literally a hill in Rome that is just ancient olive oil amphorae (clay jars) shards.
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Re:Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancien... by eecc on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:02PM (#17612779)
Monte dei Cocci aka Testaccio - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testaccio

Clubbing and nightlife area now, nice place...

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Re:Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancien... by bvc35 on Friday July 27, 2018 @01:13PM (#17627460)
You still have to excavate it just in case you do find something unique or historically significant.
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