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Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

MAustriaGA wrote: post #69
mothballed wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a phrase "Shoot, shovel, shutup" used in the US whenever anything is found on private property (usually endangered animals) that the government has an interest in protecting/restricting. The owners will destroy it immediately and before anyone finds out so that they don't lose their property rights. Thus you have the unintended consequences that these regulations accelerate rather than mitigate their destruc…

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Elon is never going to Mars, you know. It's all just marketing.

Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

txru wrote: post #54
MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #20

Whose first instinct is it, when finding an ancient roman villa hidden underneath your school, to smear graffiti on the walls. I cannot relate.

It seems that the students who actually reported the ruins may not have been the ones who graffiti'd it. They supposedly heard from other students who'd discovered it before. Whether or not that's true is harder to say.

Does it matter which generation of students did it?

Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by rcbdev »

NuclearPM wrote: post #91
0xblinq wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s a reason Nordic countries do so well and are a real “first world”. They’re smart. In the good sense.

This is a weird comment.

I'd argue that this (your) comment is much weirder. Could you provide a reason or point us at least to what you find so particularly weird?

Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by Lio »

0xblinq wrote: post #80
Torkel wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact: back in 1600s the Swedish government wanted to make our old history grander than perhaps it had been. As part of that they instituted a law that if you find gold or ancient things on your grounds you would be paid more than the worth of it if you brought it in: https://www.icomos.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1666-Placat... It lead to many treasures reaching museums etc instead of being melted down! It's st…

There’s a reason Nordic countries do so well and are a real “first world”. They’re smart. In the good sense.

“First world”?

First world is a political term meaning non-aligned with the West or Communist states during the Cold War.

Historically, Sweden was a non-aligned country. The very definition of a “third-world” country.

Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by giuseony »

It's pretty much like this everywhere in Italy. I'm originally from southern Italy and my father worked as a laborer for a local municipality. About 20 years ago, during excavation work to rebuild a wall, he personally unearthed some pottery that turned out to be the contents of a Magna Graecia storehouse dating back roughly 3,000 years. Another time, more recently, on the outskirts of my hometown, during roadwork to repave a sidewalk, a Greek tomb dating back approximately 2,400 years was discovered. The lands around the Mediterranean have been inhabited for so long that wherever you dig, you're very likely to find some kind of artifact.

Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by csomar »

Lio wrote: post #104
0xblinq wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s a reason Nordic countries do so well and are a real “first world”. They’re smart. In the good sense.

“First world”? First world is a political term meaning non-aligned with the West or Communist states during the Cold War. Historically, Sweden was a non-aligned country. The very definition of a “third-world” country.

That's the original definition. I think now first, second, third are used to annotate which level of development a country is at. Especially that now, not all developing countries are equal.

Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by theturtlemoves »

fredley wrote: post #8

> To William’s complete lack of surprise, the little cellar under the shed was much better built than the shed itself. But then, practically everywhere in Ankh-Morpork had cellars that were once the first or even second or third floors of ancient buildings, built at the time of one of the city’s empires when men thought that the future was going to last for ever. And then the river had flooded and brought mud with it…

Vot a nice... castle...

Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by zamadatix »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #81
Torkel wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact: back in 1600s the Swedish government wanted to make our old history grander than perhaps it had been. As part of that they instituted a law that if you find gold or ancient things on your grounds you would be paid more than the worth of it if you brought it in: https://www.icomos.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1666-Placat... It lead to many treasures reaching museums etc instead of being melted down! It's st…

> As part of that they instituted a law that if you find gold or ancient things on your grounds you would be paid more than the worth of it if you brought it in > It's still in effect, and still pays higher-than-melting prices But the melting price of an ancient bronze sword is nothing. Most ancient artifacts have no material value.

Then it's a very good thing you're offered more than the melting value!

Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by rowanG077 »

khazhoux wrote: post #66
ourmandave wrote: post #64

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Well that's not going to work on bigger animals (e.g. buffalo) as you can only carry back 100 lbs at per hunt.

The plan also fails miserably with elephants, giraffes, and rhinos.

And whales, don't forget whales.

Re: Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

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Post by alsetmusic »

A caption for one of the photos:

> A room with monochrome stucco decorations Cantieri Narranti

Unlikely. We know that the white marble statues that we have were once painted. Time turned them into what we see today. This room was surely vividly painted.

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