So what are the cars doing while archeologists are digging out pottery with toothbrushes? The fact of the matter is that waiting would likely have been substantially more expensive. The Greeks have to deal with this problem regularly. You can’t dig five feet without finding something a couple of thousand years old. It would have been nice to find a compromise that would have allowed the excavation to continue while still getting the parking they needed but if that is not possible someone has to make the tough decision. At some point, you have deal with the problems of the present.

Those Roman *dumpings* can make a town very rich John……Bath, England just has one lousy Roman Bathouse, but it creates so many jobs and so much income for the city and it’s businesses that even Donald Trump would be impressed.

So John if Rome and our system of governments suck(I realize you didn’t say this exactly but you did imply it) then what system do you ascribe to?

Yeah, because studying it and then making the lot would have been impossible. Somehow. I guess.

At first I thought this was merely a case of shortsighted greed. But there could something else at work. Maybe, like AB CD, the mayor has a mental condition wherein he thinks all choices have to be exclusive syllogisms. Even the possiblity that both options are available eludes them.

I’m not spanish, but to pass judgment on a country like Spain based on the idiocy of this Juan Wic would be like to doing so to all of you americans based on the acts of George Bush.

This is, indeed, a shame, but generalization is worse.

BTW, the Spanish Conquistadores did what they did in the name of gold and land. And…. ¿when was the last time you checked the actions of the english, dutch or portuguese in their collonies during the same period of history and later?