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Mosaics of a Roman villa found under a vineyard in Italy
Apr 23, 2022 5:47 PM
ZombieBorscht
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404GravitassNotFound
Roman: We don't need that spare room, but we do need more wine.
AdiPamaladi
Umbrella for scale.
Potenze
Free dirt?
YouSufferWithCognitiveDissonance
Google Mud Flood
ceceoh
I’m always amazed by how much earth can pile over something in a 1000 years.
iamnoobplzhelp
I visited a town called Herculaneum when they were uncovering this type of stuff. Freaking awesome to see it up close.
slotheroll
austenbronte
I do wonder, would it be worth it to u burry the villa and see it as a whole?
BellsTheorem
Well it was a vineyard. Now it's a museum.
Gilgamech
Someone wanted to bury the past.
KoalaOnTheJuice
Nah. Just happens. Moss biodegrades into soil, other plants move in and do the same, and so on for 2000 years.
dudedude09
Do you fill the trench with water now? Like rice? How do the mosaics grow?
insanitycontinuum
Soak them in stone
PaulTomblin
Better call Time Team!
keillrandor
Squadra del tempo!
outsailing772
The detail and artistry are excellent.
Tassadoul
Finding Roman stuff in Italy is like finding concentration camps in Germany; You stop caring after a few hundred.
georgedragonslayer
Wow! The analogy is.. Wow!
greenchair
That is really nicely sorted and organized layer of dirt
Thesaya
That's archaeologists for you! All about them stratas.
Maveric315
For real, you see those mine craft steps?
QQTrain
One man's trash.
zOriginal
Is another man's soap.
TwoForSpookin
Who’s Steve Jobs?
Nextiia
Ligma balls I believe
supervillainsevilmoustache
Man, they find this like 8 times a week for a few years now. Crazy
Enterwittyandfunnyandexpletivedeletednamehere
In north America they just find burial grounds... Including new ones around churches
SavagePatchKids
Someone keeps hiding it
Cangurina
You cant dig a hole in the ground in Italy to take a shit into and not find fucking ruins. Italy is tiny and people were everywhere.
potshot
People have this idea of medieval France or England and think it applies to ancient Italy. Rome was such a different society compared to(1)
potshot
feudal kingdoms and the level of spread is something that's difficult to imagine.(2)
imgurj17
Is that why the country is called Itiley?
MagnorCriol
CookingGarbage
Brickham
Definitely is.
pareidoliaperson
TILey