Sunday 11 February 2007

Lost Treasures

In 1988 archaeologists discovered in the Northern part of Dobrogea, the territory near the Black Sea, a unique religious settlement. It consisted of two chapels and living quarters, and was supposed to belong to the 4th -6th century a.C.. After studying it and finding many art objects and a hoard consisting of gold Roman and Byzantine coins , they buried the settlement, in order to protect it until money would be found for its restoring.
Years passed by and the lot was sold to a company who started building on it. So one day, as the guardian of the site was absent, bulldozers came and leveled the ground. The settlement is gone.
Now the newspapers ask who is guilty: the company's managers, who asked no permission, the local mayor, who "failed to tell them", or the absent guardian?
Does it matter?

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