Thus spoke Jacob Dutton (played by, surprisingly, Limousine Liberal Harrison Ford):
“Every civilization in this world is built on top of the one they conquered. You go to Rome or Jerusalem or Paris, France and it’s cities stacked on top of towns stacked on top of villages on top of some man’s house built on top of one man’s cave.”
The first time I went to formerly great Britain, I went to Scotland first thing. On the way north I got off the train at Newcastle just because I wanted to lay eyes on something as ancient as Hadrian’s wall. Then I spent four hours standing on the platform waiting for the next train. And it was some time between Boxing Day and New Year’s.
A week later I was back in England and went to the Tower of London. And there I saw a section of Roman wall less than 80 years newer than Hadrian’s wall. Only this one I got to see without freezing my dingleberries off. :-(
Years ago, different forum, a woman recounted an experience, a bus tour, and the driver was talking to them via a microphone. There were somewhere in the rural north, a scenic village, and were stopping to get something to eat in some pub there. There was some kind of demolition or construction work going on nearby. A big pile of cut stone was setting there, maybe newly quarried, maybe salvage. The driver actually told them that it was all that remained of the famous Hadrian’s Wall. And she fell for it. :^)