another area that was green and fertile way back
That’s the wrong title, I forgot to change it after my first attempt was not welcome on FR (source was, not just the article).
‘Earlier scholars had previously imagined that the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas was something of a sleepy backwater, but the large marketplace and theatre instead suggest that, in fact, it was a bustling economic and social centre in its own right... ‘
Those dang scholars are drinking the same water as scientists. It causes one to imagine many things that are not so.
Now something serious. How are all these towns covered up? I thought it took millions of years to make 1 inch of topsoil.