Archaeologists Uncovered Roman Statues So Well Preserved It’s Utterly Astounding

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Archaeologists often joke that the real treasures are discovered on the last day of a dig. For a team in Buckinghamshire, England, this quip actually proved true: As Harriet Sherwood reports for the Guardian, excavators recently made the “once-in-a-lifetime” find of three Roman busts at the site of a former Norman church.