Ancient Civilizations

[indago]

Journalist Jim Yardley wrote for The New York Times 14 April 2015:
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All Luciano Faggiano wanted when he purchased the seemingly unremarkable building at 56 Via Ascanio Grandi was to open a trattoria. The only problem was the toilet. Sewage kept backing up. So Mr. Faggiano enlisted his two older sons to help him dig a trench and investigate. He predicted the job would take about a week. ...“We found underground corridors and other rooms, so we kept digging,” said Mr. Faggiano, 60. His search for a sewage pipe, which began in 2000, became one family’s tale of obsession and discovery. He found a subterranean world tracing back before the birth of Jesus: a Messapian tomb, a Roman granary, a Franciscan chapel and even etchings from the Knights Templar. His trattoria instead became a museum, where relics still turn up today.

Italy is a slag heap of history, with empires and ancient civilizations built atop one another...
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[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Journalist Jim Yardley wrote for The New York Times 14 April 2015:
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All Luciano Faggiano wanted when he purchased the seemingly unremarkable building at 56 Via Ascanio Grandi was to open a trattoria. The only problem was the toilet. Sewage kept backing up. So Mr. Faggiano enlisted his two older sons to help him dig a trench and investigate. He predicted the job would take about a week. ...“We found underground corridors and other rooms, so we kept digging,” said Mr. Faggiano, 60. His search for a sewage pipe, which began in 2000, became one family’s tale of obsession and discovery. He found a subterranean world tracing back before the birth of Jesus: a Messapian tomb, a Roman granary, a Franciscan chapel and even etchings from the Knights Templar. His trattoria instead became a museum, where relics still turn up today.

Italy is a slag heap of history, with empires and ancient civilizations built atop one another...
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History fascinates me, always has! They keep finding lost cities in the jungles even today !
As a teenager I wanted to be an archaeologist but as I grew older hormones kicked in and womanizing took over.
Instead worked construction jobs and was a bouncer at different night clubs 3/4 nights a week for many years ..
Uncovered a lot of pretty, sexy woman but no lost cities!!
Looking back now, Id take finding the lost cities any day!-Tyr

[indago]

Uncovered a lot of pretty, sexy woman but no lost cities!!
Looking back now, Id take finding the lost cities any day!-Tyr

Yeah, but...

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Yeah, but...

Well yes,, there is that! --Tyr

[Max R.]

I'm a big fan of history myself and, courtesy of your tax dollars, even earned a degree in International Politics from Troy University at Hurlburt AFB which emphasized both history and geography.

George Santayana was correct: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

[indago]

From Jerusalem Post News 10 June 2015:
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Archaeological excavations near Highway 1 – at the entrance to Abu Gosh, west of Jerusalem – uncovered a large Byzantine-era road station that included a church, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday. The excavations were conducted while upgrading and widening the highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in a project initiated and funded by the National Roads Company, said IAA spokeswoman Yoli Shwartz. The road station and church were found adjacent to a seep spring known as Ein Naqa'a, located on the outskirts of Moshav Bet Neqofa, said Shwartz.

...“The excavations yielded numerous different finds, testifying to intensive activity at the site,” Shwartz added. “These included oil lamps, coins, special glass vessels, marble fragments, and mother-of-pearl shells.”
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Civilizations built upon civilizations...