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Just learned about a 3,000-year-old city found under a parking lot in London
I was watching a show on the History Channel last night. They said workers digging for a new building in 2010 hit a huge wall. It turned out to be a whole Roman settlement from before the city was even called London. They found over 10,000 artifacts under the asphalt. Has anyone else seen the stuff they pulled out of there?
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carr.willow20d ago
The scale of that find is just wild. Tbh, the best thing they did was stop the dig immediately and call in archaeologists. Seen too many sites get wrecked because a construction crew just plows through to meet a deadline. Ngl, it's a huge pain for the builders, but you only get one shot at stuff that old. The museum collections from that site are insane now because they did it right.
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nora1020d ago
My buddy's construction crew hit a burial ground last year. They shut down for three months while experts mapped everything out. The local historical society still thanks them for not being idiots about it.
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