[DyslexicAtheist]

> You can't pick up a rock in Italy without technically ...

reminded me of a trattoria in Lecce, where the new owner just wanted to fix the toilet plumbing before its grand opening, but discovered a tomb from a Greek tribe, the remnants of a Franciscan chapel, etchings from the Knights Templar, and a Roman granary.

Who knows, it could've been the best trattoria in all of Italy, but it's another museum now.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/museo-faggiano

[throwaway894345]

That’s a fascinating story, but your framing is perplexing—if it hadn’t become a museum it would have been yet another restaurant and presumably the man was compensated such that he could still have opened his restaurant in another building if he chose? Maybe you meant it humorously and I just missed the joke?

[ithkuil]

perhaps it's possible to combine the two things and have a historical themed trattoria-museum ?

[romanhn]

The good news is that this is the final outcome, basically. While the original site did become a museum, the owner bought a building next door and opened up a trattoria there (albeit almost twenty years after starting the dig). https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190807-a-trattoria-with...

[graeme]

"Who knows, maybe...."

Indicates a joke frame.