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"Byzantine shipwrecks found during the construction of the first-ever tunnel under the Bosporus held up work for years." Why does it have to take that long to

• gkya 11y ago
  Man, it's tedious work to unearth those stuff. One cannot use big shovels and machines, sometimes you have to work with fingertips and painting-brushes. And the so-called old-city (what I hate to call Fatih) is, I mean whenever you dig a hole you find something. By my school there is the constructions site for another entrance to the already-existent metro station, and it is still not completed after maybe two years. And all they wanted was to dig down a single storey entrance that then linked to the one that already was there. Then they found some 2500 yrs-old Byzantine sarcophagi, and, you may guess the rest...