GGG Ping.
Very good. I love this stuff.
Let’s hope they buried somebody with favorite selections from the Vortumna Book Club.
Future Italian builders will uncover Hoffa.
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Grave robbers, or tombaroli as they are known in ItalyWow, even the name for the crooks is cool.
The tombs were discovered at Tarquinia, 50 miles north of Rome in an area named a World Heritage Site by Unesco.Tarquinia? This is going to be big.
Auctioning Antiquities Collected by an Ancestor
By WENDY MOONAN
October 14, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/arts/design/14anti.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/arts/design/14anti.html?fta=y&pagewanted=all
Lots of good digs all over Italy these days. I’m particularly amazed at what they’re finding in Rome (forum, Palatine Hill, etc) right now.