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Why did Italian leaders wait almost a year to unveil Rome's latest archaeological finds? The answer is as old as the city itself.

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  • Posted By: KROTONE219 @ 12/24/2007 12:50:14 PM

    YOU ARE PUTTING SO MUCH EMPHASYS ON THE iTALIAN SYSTEMS OF POLITICS INSTEAD OF THE NATIONAL TREASURES FOUND THERE . THERE'S PLENTY OF SHANIGANS THAT GO ON IN THIS COUNTRY AS WELL SO WHY NOT TRY EMPHASIZE ON PUTTING TOGETHER AN INTERNATIONAL WORLD WIDE TEAM TO HELP FIND AND RESTORE THE BEAUTY THAT LIES BENEATH LEAVING THE POLITICS AND POLITICIANS OUT OF IT

  • Posted By: rudilichtner @ 12/18/2007 9:49:28 AM

    Wonderful things are being discovered in Rome, and it does not matter if they are announced a few months later to give time for restoration. Rather one could wonder why there are not more excavations: how many centuries will we need to know everything that lies below? Do we really need a new underground line to find out what's there?

  • Posted By: gattorosso @ 12/18/2007 6:45:08 AM

    For me it is a problem of poor care about cultural stuff, mainly archaeological things. Here we have lot of daily discoveries, but very few are published and go public. Short money, and few person that use them for their own interest and academic career. There were no need to get back things from USA, we have tons of antiquities laying in our depositories without restoration. They were safer and cared much in usa.

  • Posted By: gattorosso @ 12/18/2007 6:43:10 AM

    For me it is a problem of poor care about cultural stuff, mainly archaeological things. Here we have lot of daily discoveries, but very few are published and go public. Short money, and few person that use them for their own interest and academic career. There were no need to get back things from USA, we have tons of antiquities laying in our depositories without restoration. They were safer and cared much in usa.

  • Posted By: wlm1 @ 12/17/2007 7:04:07 PM

    I am amazed that Italy's government has fallen the the depths of corruption and could allow such magnificent wonders to fall to pieces.For a country who once forced their rule and still do through the Church, they can't rid themselves of such a plague. They should employ their army to root out for once and all these thugs. restore the history of Rome.

  • Posted By: wlm1 @ 12/17/2007 7:04:03 PM

    I am amazed that Italy's government has fallen the the depths of corruption and could allow such magnificent wonders to fall to pieces.For a country who once forced their rule and still do through the Church, they can't rid themselves of such a plague. They should employ their army to root out for once and all these thugs. restore the history of Rome.

  • Posted By: wlm1 @ 12/17/2007 7:01:45 PM

    I am amazed that Italy's government has fallen the the depths of corruption and could allow such magnificent wonders to fall to pieces.For a country who once forced their rule and still do through the Church, they can't rid themselves of such a plague. They should employ their army to root out for once and all these thugs. restore the history of Rome.

  • Posted By: stefano rollero @ 12/13/2007 5:55:32 PM

    It is incredible depth of the decline Italian. In the Renaissance we have been a beacon of culture, science, innovation and finance in Europe. In music and in cinema.
    The system in some ways Italy is composed of a lot of apparently false accounts, corruption, poor quality, decline in the future.
    The Italy is the country with more older people and the world with the lowest fertility among industrialized countries: for years births less deaths. Our levels of education, culture, science and technology are among the lowest in Europe.
    And to put the neosegretario the Democratic Party, Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome: "There is more fear than hope, the Italians have more fear than hope.
    They have become best-sellers in Italy books like "Casta and Gomorrah" bashing the behavior of politicians. Research at the University of Cambridge who has shown that the Italians are the most unfortunate among 15 nations of Western Europe.
    Stefano Rollero, artist-Turin.
    Web art site: http://www.artmajeur.com/catanquader

  • Posted By: stefano rollero @ 12/13/2007 5:54:11 PM

    It is incredible depth of the decline Italian. In the Renaissance we have been a beacon of culture, science, innovation and finance in Europe. In music and in cinema.
    The system in some ways Italy is composed of a lot of apparently false accounts, corruption, poor quality, decline in the future.
    The Italy is the country with more older people and the world with the lowest fertility among industrialized countries: for years births less deaths. Our levels of education, culture, science and technology are among the lowest in Europe.
    And to put the neosegretario the Democratic Party, Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome: "There is more fear than hope, the Italians have more fear than hope.
    They have become best-sellers in Italy books like "Casta and Gomorrah" bashing the behavior of politicians. Research at the University of Cambridge who has shown that the Italians are the most unfortunate among 15 nations of Western Europe.
    Stefano Rollero, artist-Turin.

    veb art site: http://www.artmajeur.com/catanquader

  • Posted By: stefano rollero @ 12/13/2007 5:52:35 PM

    It is incredible depth of the decline Italian. In the Renaissance we have been a beacon of culture, science, innovation and finance in Europe. In music and in cinema.
    The system in some ways Italy is composed of a lot of apparently false accounts, corruption, poor quality, decline in the future.
    The Italy is the country with more older people and the world with the lowest fertility among industrialized countries: for years births less deaths. Our levels of education, culture, science and technology are among the lowest in Europe.
    And to put the neosegretario the Democratic Party, Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome: "There is more fear than hope, the Italians have more fear than hope.
    They have become best-sellers in Italy books like "Casta and Gomorrah" bashing the behavior of politicians. Research at the University of Cambridge who has shown that the Italians are the most unfortunate among 15 nations of Western Europe.
    Stefano Rollero, artist-Turin.

    veb art site: http://www.artmajeur.com/catanquader

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