Do People Excavate and Look for the Past?

After the earthquake, it emerged that there is a seventeenth century city built on top of the abandoned back fild remains of the earlier mediaeval back to ancient city. And one thing that the excavators noticed, they found not particularly surprising. They found quite a lot of statues. It's in the same sort of time frame as the people who actually bury ancient statues rather than dig em up. The obvious guesss in the times of the inquisition, you really don't want to find pagan antiquity. So i it may bein south, in the spanish dominated south piffepl o england, the there, they were more against paganism and didn't want but for whatever