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Poet George Eliot called Rome “the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession.”
subway line from the outer suburbs to the Colosseum. That's because nearly every ventilation shaft and exploratory excavation at a planned train station along the line have unearthed astonishing vestiges of the city’s past.Rome is a living palimpsest: Its modern topography rests atop the remains of the previous city. Rather than removing every remnant of an old structure to make way for a new one, ancient Romans would just build right on top of its foundation.
Half a century later, things hadn’t gotten much better. A parking garage hastily erected to accommodate visitors for the 2000 Vatican Great Jubilee saw
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