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I have no sources but Turkey suffers from this problem a lot, and the solution is that the construction crews pretend they saw nothing and complete their contra

• User23 3y ago
  This happens in southern California all the time with fossils and such too.
• toyg 3y ago
  Used to be the same in Italy too, I expect it's still the case in many towns and cities - but this is Rome, a stone throw from the Vatican; you can't get away with that sort of behavior in those places anymore. Besides, this is a momentous discovery that will accrue a lot of political capital for the palace owners - precisely because they didn't spoil such treasure. Had it been some random Roman house with a couple of mosaics, things would have probably been a bit different.
• probably_wrong 3y ago
  I've have read comments similar to yours before, and unfortunately I could not find a source. I do, however, remember that those comments were related to that time when digging a tunnel for a high-speed train in Istanbul uncovered important shipwrecks. As the article puts it, "The excavators, attempting to avoid traces of Istanbul’s human history, had ended up finding an extra five thousand years of it". https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-big-dig https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-big-dig
• MichaelZuo 3y ago
  Now that you mention it, it's no wonder the construction sector in Turkey is known for off the books dealings...
  • VHRanger 3y ago
    That's just the regular corruption in the country. They also make tofu-dreg style buildings and that has nothing to do with historical preservation