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How much would it cost the fully excavate and preserve the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum? Given the potential goldmine of artifacts and lost texts it contains, why haven't the excavations moved forward after so much time?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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