“To date, experts have exhumed about two-thirds of the 165-acre settlement.”
In a lecture I learned that the slow progress is not from a lack of resources. It’s a deliberate policy.
Every dig destroys evidence. They want to leave some of the site for future generations who may have new technologies that could get useful info that is discarded by current practices.
Yup. The initial phase of digs did little to protect the finds (and the pre-archaeologist plundering by the local gentry looted an entire ancient theater, for example) and it was long thought that the best idea was no more digging. Lately they've been hot on the idea again. I say, screw it, the stuff still buried isn't going to improve with age, and neither am I. :^)
In my culture, this is called “grave-robbing”.