[wildbill]

Given the length of time that humans have lived in that area, there are a million stories the naked cities buried under the surface of every hill

[SunkenCiv]

Yup, and some of those mounds are not hills, they got there via thousands of years of layers of building.

• Trash Talk [ Monte Testaccio, imperial Roman landfill ] [5/05/2012]
• Roman rubbish dump reveals secrets of ancient trading networks [6/07/2015]