It’s called gallows humour. It’s how we got through the last 20,000 years before people discovered they could be offended simply to draw attention to themselves
Xi’an (Western Peace), the thousand year old city located in Western China is also known as Chang’an (Long/Eternal/Enduring, (you get the idea) Peace) was the captial of Han Dynasty (206 BC–9AD), Tang Dynasty (618AD–907AD) and many other smaller Kingdoms throughout Chinese history. In modern times, it is quite well known that any residential, commerical, or even transit development has a high chance of digging up some ancient grave, most notebly royal tombs.
It is said that in Xi’an, when you travel through the underground subway, it is very likely that ancient ghosts would stare at you for disturbing their long sleep.
When I was much younger I was talking to someone about ghosts if they were real and he pointed out what you were saying. If ghosts were real there should be places that are swarming with them given the sheer number of people clustered in some of these ancient cities for so long.
Definitely, the number of people have died thoughout history drastically outweight the number of living people today. If ghosts exists, Earth would be very crowded indeed (not to mention all those animals and … dinosaurs).
Depends on your definition of fun. In Cologne, for example, you cannot turn over a stone without finding something archeological, aged 1000 or 2000 years. Nice for historians, but HELL for anyone who wants to build something.
Because if you dig your foundations and you find something, you have to stop immediately, report it to the authorities, wait for archeologists to take care of it until they give you a GO again (which can hold construction for a long time), and on top of that, you’ll have to pay the archeologist team, too. And if you “forget” to report it and they find out (not finiding anything is actually suspicious in that town!) they’ll hit you with fines that make the idea of month-long delays and archeologists bills look quite cheap in comparison.
And if everyone knows this, and everyone does it this way, its not really an issue. It is just real estate developers complaining they can make mare and faster profits if these rules did not exist. Because fuck put culture and history amirite?
Its good that not following these rules is so heavily fined that the fines actually do something. This is how fines should work. If its cheaper to eat the fine, companies would just do so and ignore the rule.
I know this is right and important, but I think the bill for the archeological survery should be footed by the government. I’ve read of a case in the papers some time ago where a young couple wanted to build their home and suddenly they had a >50k bill for preserving a Celtic something where their basement should have been.
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