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"Yeah, we just kind of have ancient history laying around everywhere here. Why, what's your country like?"
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Explanation: Archeology is a very dedicated and difficult task. A discovery of a single previously unrecognized building can be a major event in an archeologist's career, and the older the more impressive.
... and yet there are numerous major archeological finds in Turkiye which have been discovered over the past century by random rural Turkish folks just fucking stumbling over them in the course of their daily lives.
Must be nice, living in a country steeped in ancient civilization!
It's nice if you find ancient rubble in your field. Then there are places like Rome where every pound of dirt you dig you uncover some Roman things and the authorities must come and check if thinga have to be preserved. Imagine the hell that was digging the underground metro lines...
oh yeah, the political climate allows us to live lives of quality... outside of the country