Spain destroys lost Roman city for a car park

The Sunday Times ^ | April 30, 2006 | Jon Clarke

[S0122017]

There is a difference in treating animals with some respect and not inflict pain and stress when it can be avoided and human rights.

[S0122017]

Im not sure what 'concreted over' means. I take it they did not pour concrete over the actual ruins?

In any case, i was in Italy several times, and well.. There are soooo many excavated ruins that 'museums' are stacking blocks, pillars and statues next and on top of each other outside the buildings.

They dig artefacts up, yet fail to store them correctly so now they dissolve in the nowadays acid rain. And those are the lucky ruins, cause there are many that are simply abandoned completely.

So agree with you. If you can't take care of what you are digging up, better just let it rest.

[Roccus]

You're right. I went back to find the article that I was referring to about granting apes "human rights" so I could send you to it. To my humiliation, it was a John Semmens piece and it was satire. I have to remember to check out the authors of what is posted here at FR.
}:^0

[Citizen4Right]

Good for them. Do it again!!!! Now, if this had been a habitat for the spotted owl or snail darter then the bulldozers would never have gone forward. In 2000 years the scientist can lament when they dig up a 2007 Nissan and it gets sent to the crusher. It'll be worth the same as some dead guy's community bath tub... LOL

[AmishDude]

"There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a parking lot."

Yep. People travel all over the World to photograph them.

Exactly. Because if the parking lot weren't there, they'd have to travel 50 miles outside of it, then be bussed on an inconvenient, filthy, infrequent mode of public transportation to within 5 miles of it and then they'd have to hike it into the spot and by that time, it's too dark for pictures.

[wildbill]

The commercial future of his city would have been assured by tourists if they had reconstructed such a wonderful site.

[BJClinton]

Socialists are as evil as Islamists.

[restornu]

When I read things like this I get a sinking feeling and it only re-inforces that believe in conspiracy for some Secret Society does not want something to surface!

[American_Centurion]

Not that I endorse losing ancient treasures like this, but this is the kind of thing that happens when your empire fails.

Roman cities have been getting paved over for a long time now. It's just the way it is. Regretable, that this town didn't have the foresight to see the value in this discovery, but value is relative.

[ApplegateRanch]

What the hell does that have to do with this thread

There is no such thing as a stupid question. Sometimes, however, it is a case of, 'if you have to ask it, you will never understand the answer.

The obvious 'connection' is that politicians everywhere are more concerned with their own comforts, perks, and agendas, than with the public good they are supposedly charged with upholding.

[freedom moose]

To a socialist, there is no past, only tomorow.
Your statement would definitely hurt the feelings of the socialists who run Barcelona. They won't let you do a damned thing to your (privately owned) home - and i'm not just talking about major structural work - without jumping through a series of hoops, submitting lots of expensive plans and having more expensive studies done if it's anywhere near the historic center of town. Yes I know the idea is to collect taxes and fees but it's under the guise of "historic preservation". Also, the historic city of Tarragona is another similar case where developers and construction companies got tired of unearthing something historic everytime the put a shovel in the ground and waiting for the gov't to come and evaluate it.

[DougWeller]

Hi,
That story about an ancient city comes from a Creationist writer, and as a Floridian I can say it is obviously nonsense. No such city exists, and digging a canal anywhere, and definitely Florida, wouldn't go 'far below sea level'.

[dfwgator]

They discovered a well-preserved Roman forum, bath house, gymnasium and temple

But other than that and the aqueducts, what did the Romans ever do for them?

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