If you thought the Taliban was bad with ancient history, read this...

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2157887,00.html

Spain destroys lost Roman city for a car park
Jon Clarke in Malaga
THE archeologists could barely hide their excitement. Beneath the main square of Ecija, a small town in southern Spain, they had unearthed an astounding treasure trove of Roman history.

They discovered a well-preserved Roman forum, bath house, gymnasium and temple as well as dozens of private homes and hundreds of mosaics and statues — one of them considered to be among the finest found.

But now the bulldozers have moved in. The last vestiges of the lost city known as Colonia Augusta Firma Astigi — one of the great cities of the Roman world — have been destroyed to build an underground municipal car park.

Dr Sonia Zakrzewski, a senior lecturer in archeology at Southampton University who has worked on the site, said: “It is a real shock when things like this happen. I am surprised it has gone ahead. There is no doubt this site is of fundamental importance to archeology.”

[TomPainesBones]

1. An affront to humanity n/t

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2. incredible.

what pigs modern people can be.

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3. more

The most exquisite discovery was a statue, known as the Wounded Amazon, modelled on an ancient Greek goddess of war. Only three other such statues are known to exist. The one in Ecija is in by far the best condition with some of its original decorative paint intact.

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4. If I have to do much more of this --

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-- I am going to have serious brain damage.

I suppose the up-side will be that I won't be able to comprehend the horror of this kind of stupidity.