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Re:Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read ... by _a_a_a_ on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:20PM (#39264657)
Bigger yet by far https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emp...

He of the terracotta army. Not excavated yet for fear of damage, but I would so love to know...

Re:Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read ... by cameron_b on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:57PM (#39270238)
The feeling you get when you’ve gone into one of those aircraft hanger-size buildings and then you see some of the information they’ve gotten with ground tests ( radar, mercury, etc ) is wild. The site is huge.

One of the suppositions is that the main chamber contained a model of his entire kingdom, replete with rivers of mercury.

So yes. Archaeology is a bit destructive, and sometimes the destruction can go both ways. Proceed with caution.