From:	Max Rible slothman@*********.org
Subject:	Crater Lake
Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:40:56 -0700

At 18:31 7/29/99 -0600, Geoffrey Haacke wrote:
>>From: Max Rible <slothman@*********.org>
>>The net result is quite different. Pompeii could be excavated for
>>a great deal of useful information. Blowing something up makes it a lot
>>harder for the archaeologists to figure things out three thousand years
>>later...
>
>I heard that they HAVE tried to excavate Thera.

Really? Did they manage to find lots of intact frescoes and statues?
Pompeii was a real treasure trove of data... the Las Vegas of the
Roman Empire...

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