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Did people care about archaeological sites in the past? I see a lot of houses in Italy from the 18th century that were built basically on top of archaeological sites. Plus from lots of old engravings even the Coliseum looked abandoned in mid 1700s. Did we not care about the past before 19th century?

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Did people care about archaeological sites in the past? I see a lot of houses in Italy from the 18th century that were built basically on top of archaeological sites. Plus from lots of old engravings even the Coliseum looked abandoned in mid 1700s. Did we not care about the past before 19th century?	32