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The Economic Times
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Buried for centuries, revealed in days: A Roman tomb surfaces after rain

It wasn’t found by archaeologists with maps and ground-penetrating radar. A flood did the trick instead.

Serrentella, a stream in the small southern Italian town of Apollosa, overflowed its banks after heavy flooding in September 2021. When the waters finally subsided, they left something unexpected behind: a row of large limestone blocks jutting out of the earth along the edge of the stream.

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