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Really wish it detailed how they discovered it. Hope there wasn't some digging that ran into and destroyed some section.

Can't wait to see a further analysis of the site. Hope they can use some techniques to measure the full scale and find even more interesting artifacts nearby

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https://twitter.com/DapperHistorian/status/12654268574465146...

"Old maps showed that a villa was in the area, but of course they didn't use scale until much later, so the exact location had been lost. This was the result of a long search to finally pinpoint it."

> After years of searching, the floor with the well-preserved tiles was finally discovered in the vineyard in northern Italy.

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