Massive triumphal marble arch built by Romans to honour Emperor Titus discovered

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In Paris they have the Metro, but in Rome they have busses.

My friend Sally, who teaches English there, told me that they're trying to dig a subway in Rome but whenever they find any buried ruins the archaelogists have to spend a few years puzzling over it before the subway line can go any farther.

this is so delightful :)

Just a nitpick: there actually are two subway lines in Rome too. They're building the third one and yes, it's incredibly complicated because you can't dig a hole anywhere in Rome without finding something of historical relevance :)

Could they not just go deep enough to avoid all that?

That's something I often wondered about, but I'm pretty sure there will be some reasons why it's not feasible... I also think that the biggest problems are the stations.

Subway lines need stations, ventilation and often big shafts to build the tunnels from.

The lines are deep enough, with tunnelling, to avoid historical layers; mainly it's the stations that end up with archaeology.

It's the same case in Warsaw. They earthier find some medieval remains, massive graves from WW2 or a bomb.

I read in Bloomberg it's 20% more expensive to build a building in London than NY.

Same happened during the construction of the Athens metro. Now many of the stations are small musems.

>>Authorities in Rome now hope to reconstruct the imposing, 17-metre-wide, 15-metre-long marble arch, in a project that would cost at least €1 million (£718,000).

Given the size of this thing, this sounds wildly optimistic.

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