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I remember seeing a documentary about the Greek subway system that was put in for the Olympics. They ran into historic relics, like, every two feet.

With the development in Northern VA over the last 20 or so years LOTS of Civil War-era relics have been found. Apparently when developers were clearing out the Chantilly/Ox Hill Battlefield (the battle took place during the Union withdrawal following 2nd Manassas) they found human remains ... which resulted in the development being delayed (it's now a strip mall/condo complex with only a few acres of the battlefield left untouched) while an archeological study was done.

Since then there are mostly just rumors of developers finding stuff and quickly finding a way to get rid of it and/or pave the area. Wouldn't want an "inconvienient" find like, say, a dead soldier to get in the way of a development's schedule ...

with re-intro of wolves into the West, ranchers are rumored to have adopted a policy of "shoot..shovel..shutup" in dealing with the nature of wolves vis stock.
A different shoot here, having occurred more than a century ago, contractors in Northern Virginia are apparently good to go and corporately versed with "shovel and shutup"..with a wink-n-node of course. Especially in the Manassas-Centreville area.
As for construction related discoveries, Gub'ment should keep secrets as well as developers...