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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/pompeii-still-has-buried-secrets
Scholarly consensus is that part of the city should stay buried. There are all sorts of concerns about visitors damaging Pompeii. That article is full of them. During World War Two, a group of allied soldiers thought Pompeii was a nazi encampment and shot at it. Nobody wants Pompeii to fall into further ruin.
Sure, leaving the rest to future excavation might make sense... But we already fucked up the portion we dug up... Reburying it will just fuck it up even more.
Will it fuck it up more than, say, acid rain caused by excess CO2 in the atmosphere? Or soldiers in WWIII thinking it's an enemy camp? Or just regular looters and vandals and tourists?
Looters and vandals of a millennia old ruin full of nothing but destroyed lives? Acid rain will cause damage but I believe our concern should be stopping that, not worrying about what it will destroy..
Regarding soldiers, hopefully war never touches Italia again and the chance of Pompéi being bombed in a modern war is fairly low. We know where it is and the Geneva conventions list military actions on world heritage sites to be a war crime, no nation who recognizes that convention will intentionally target the ruins
Oh, you're a lemmy.world user. That explains why you didn't read the article. You guys hate reading
Just refuting the idiocy you commit to writing
Like I said, .world users can't read. It was right there in front of you, and you preferred to throw around ableist insults instead of using your eyes.