They aren’t digging for now. It’s a geophysical survey. It will be difficult to access the temple because there’s a church on top of it and the main entrance is likely under the church’s altar.
This is pretty common for churches. A lot are built on older sacred places which makes it hard to study early cultures. It’s always exciting when we can get at those things as a lot of the cases the churches have high heritage values themselves. :)
They aren’t digging for now. It’s a geophysical survey. It will be difficult to access the temple because there’s a church on top of it and the main entrance is likely under the church’s altar.
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Sometimes I feel like we live in Sanctuary. I guess we will find out.
This is pretty common for churches. A lot are built on older sacred places which makes it hard to study early cultures. It’s always exciting when we can get at those things as a lot of the cases the churches have high heritage values themselves. :)
In this case, built on an older sacred place to erase the original sacred place from existence. Except a few hundred years later, they failed.
As is usually the case, for location choice. A religious kind of imperialism.