IIRC, when the Athena of Piraeus was partially uncovered by a crew working on a sewer line, the crew tried to bulldoze it quickly so the archeologists wouldn't stop their job. Fortunately, they were discovered.
Here is part of the statue:
37 posted on 06/13/2010 8:56:58 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
