I wonder how often digging projects in old cities like London discover ancient stuff long buried and forgotten.,(reply>), All the time! When I was a solicitor in London, we were working on a project to build a gym underneath a hotel in central London. We had to put a whole section in there on what would happen if something archaeological turned up when they were digging.,(reply>), if you are interested there is a magazine called current archaeology which you can subscribe to that coves arch find of note all over the uk and sometime Ireland.,(reply>), Elliott Collins America doesn't exactly have artifacts.,(reply>), Eh, when they do it's best not to tell anyone, that way they can just keep digging.,(reply>), +Jed Robertson You think that's a lot? Rome is trying to get a new underground train and they're like "I don't know where to put all these priceless mysterious artifacts!"