Posted on 04/30/2006 4:38:05 PM PDT by gd124
Not to worry. A hundred years from now, they'll tear up the pavement and find the Roman town again.
"There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a parking lot."
Yep. People travel all over the World to photograph them.
To a socialist, there is no past, only tomorow. What was thao old Communist saying? The future is known, the past is always changing.
Are you talking as in monkey's or migrant Frenchmen?
This is nuts!
Barbarians-R-Us!
Monkees, babboons and apes, The non-human variety....wait a sec, that doesn't help...er...ah...the ones that don't drink and whine.
Under the Socialists, everything but the Islamic past will be erased.
Soon the Muslims will re-take their beloved Al-Andalus.
The do in Chicago!
Hey do you have this song? LOL.
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In some ways that is not such a bad thing. As a former archaeologist, it pains me to see sites excavated in the early 1900s and know that they destroyed a whole lot of information that *today* we could have retrieved. In 100 or 200 years, who knows what they could retrieve?
So long as the parking lot doesn't negatively impact the site, I don't really see the problem.
I guess we'll never know now.
We've lost so much history due to ignorance, greed and bureaucratic incompetence and impatience, you'd think that by now, we'd be a little more supportive these days, especially when you run accross something that is as well preserved as they say this site was.
I certainly believe we should preserve ancient sites that would add to our fundamental knowledge of the Roman empire we don't know.
But sometimes its the little things that one discovers that can alter our fundamental understanding of things, or support a theory that had no corresponding evidence before. Who knows what they could have found there.
If the world were thrown into a cataclyism that destroyed everything and several thousand years pass and the surviving people run accross a burried but preserved Tampa, they may very well find it interesting.
> They do in Chicago!
Coffee --> Nose --> Keyboard...
Thanks a lot!
Well, not quite. In the US we have the Historic Preservation Act, or whatever the latest incarnation is called, and that comes into play whenever federal money's involved.
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