Re:Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read ...
by cameron_b on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:57PM
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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.
He of the terracotta army. Not excavated yet for fear of damage, but I would so love to know...