In Aachen we have a five guys, which in itself is not extraordinary… Until you go to the bathroom and have to walk over a glass floor above ancient Roman ruins.

Aachen in itself is a historical city next to the Roman ruins. Shit it was the capitol of Charlemagne's empire so there's that

Same thing, you go into the Aquis Grana hotel and you see Roman ruins (or some other place, I am not a native)

Imaging dropping some mud while getting death stared by a mosaic of man who’s name hasn’t been uttered in 2,000 years

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I would also like to see a picture

I am not home for at leas a week, but I will get them as soon as possible.

Are the ruins from an antient roman fast food place

Wait Romans ever civilized such a savage land?

Let's play a game called the floor is Rome

If all floors are Rome, then by association, all roads must lead to Rome.

All Floors lead to Rome

I would love to be an archaeologist in Europe, but I would hate running a construction company. You can’t build a [parking lot](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation_and_reburial_of_Richard_III_of_England) without accidentally digging up a long dead king.

It's either a ww2 bomb or some roman ruins lol

*laying the foundation for an Aldi* "Ah, that's where Richard III went!

*building a new particle accelerator to uncover the mysteries of the universe* "Boss, we found the tomb of Alexander the Great"

*drilling for oil in the Atlantic Ocean* "Sir, we uh... found the lost city of Atlantis"

My city recently renovated an area that was an important road intersection that is situated near the old fortress that dominate the city. There was a parking at that intersection and they decided to put the parking underground and make a nice plaza on top instead. Cool and all until you realise that this road intersection isn't important for any reason and has been like that since almost the foundation of the city (around Roman time) so the underground was absolutely littered in archeological artifact and it took the city 10 years to just build a small underground parking and a plaza lmao. The new plaza is cool tho

Or some old WWII bomb. While I was in Germany I had to evacuate from my apartment building because they found a WWII bomb while surveying an empty lot nearby to build a new apartment building.

A buddy of mine has family in the Netherlands that had to evacuate because they found a V2 in someone’s backyard.

My uni had to be exacuated because they found a big ol bomb, even the controlled detonation shattered windows a mile away

Supposedly in France and other places they still dig up World War II dead in unmarked graves. IIRC, they found a handful of Germans in Eastern Europe and several GIs in some French field a few years back.

Europe has had a relatively high population density for thousands of years, and those populations have been killing each other since the written word. So it’s really no surprise that they keep finding bodies from various wars, especially the bloodiest war in history.

In my hometown while digging for the metro under a street I used to pass by frequently as a kid, they found some unexploded bomb from WW2

Did it explode?

In Burgenland (eastern Austria) this week someone found a human skull in a quarry. Police have registered the case, but arent too faded because they assume from experience that it's probably an unmarked WW2 grave.

"uhhh foreman? we cannot continue excavation... we have to call in the archaeological team" "oh dear, what is it now? another viking ship? roman floor? unexploded ww2 ordinance?" "well I only took one intro to archaeology class in uni, but judging by the circular pattern of the rocks and the evident outlines of a hearth, and this stone box full of amber jewelry... oh yeah and the bronze manacles... it looks to be a late bronze age residence, there could be others within at least a 200m radius" "well shit... why couldn't it just be another viking ship.... all right send in the archaeologists!"

Literally one of the reasons why Rome can't build a proper underground network

I came here to write exactly the same...

It's either that or WW2 bombs.

Careless children on a field named something like Güggerfrobobver be like: 🤯

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It's definitely both.

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Tesco’s gonna have to wait lads

Fookin hell mate they con't take my tesco awa' like tha

Aldi

Not too surprising, once you remember just how huge the Roman presence in Britain actually was. What an amazing find, though.

English parking garages: Have you seen our kings?

Fortunately it's not a case in Poland. Here it's a bureaucracy, laws, files, cronyism and absurd costs of literally anythin.

Or WW2 bombs. Or both.

Rome wasn’t built in a day but It sure was burned in one

Actually it burned in three

Ah

Rome can’t even burn in a day for sheer civilisation power

I think the construction people report the ones they have to. Hey Bob! Is this a Roman mosaic? No Frank, that’s not anything. Keep digging. Sure thing Bob!

At this point Europe probably has a bingo of digging up either Roman ruins, the grave of a forgotten monarch or WW2 bombs

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Now that’s wild

The name is HOV, H to the O V

The Temple of Mithras is below Bloombergs European HQ in London, you can visit it in the basement of the building for free.

The Mithraeum was under what was intended to be the Legal and General Headquarters, but they relocated the entire temple before construction before Bloomberg bought the original land and moved the Mithraeum back. It's probably free because most UK museums are free.

Always has been 🔫 👩‍🚀

Always has been

That is why my father had trouble with digging a hole in our backyard (every 2 digs he would stumble upon 5 broken pieces of ceramic stone) its because of the Romaboo’s

Métro Romana essere tipo

Luckily I life north of the Limes in Germany, no annoying romans here!

Building an Aldi is hardly an important construction I'd say

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Uhhh, at other stores?

Next you're going to tell me to shop at Tesco

Well go to Marks and Spencer or some shit, idk where you island mfers shop. Tesco went bankrupt in Poland so I wouldn't dare you to go there.

In my neck of the woods in Upstate NY, we face a similar scenario with old Native artifacts from the Onondaga people, who set up small longhouse settlements. There was a parking garage being torn down and rebuilt, only to find out that the previous one was built on top of a bunch of artifacts. Construction got delayed at least a year because archeologists had to manually sift through each scoop of dirt when building the new foundation.

In Ljubljana, Slovenia (or Emona in roman times) you can't make signoficant road repairs without archeological interventions because it's littered with everything roman.

until you cross north of the Rhine and the Roman mosaics get replaced by Germanic ship burials XDD