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Except thousands of years ago it was limited to natural causes. Now the law actually encourages it. It might not be such a bad thing. In the past, people mig
by adrianratnapala 10y ago
Except thousands of years ago it was limited to natural causes. Now the law actually encourages it.
It might not be such a bad thing. In the past, people might have unearthed the treasures and dispersed them on the open market and then built their hous.
Now they just build the house over the things, which stay put where some future archeologists can give it a layer number.
- duaneb 10y agoThis probably works pretty well for continuing to preserve the artifacts. Our ability to gain knowledge from them will only increase over time.
- beachstartup 10y ago> Now the law actually encourages it. do you know for a fact that a shitty law didn't incentivize it back then? we're talking about ancient greece here. etymonline link for bureaucracy: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=bureaucracy http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc... 1818, from French bureaucratie, coined by French economist Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759) on model of democratie, aristocratie, from bureau "office," literally "desk" (see bureau) + Greek suffix -kratia denoting "power of" (see -cracy).