"Construction of subway line may leave remnants in ruins
By Mark Landler
NEW YORK TIMES
ISTANBUL, Turkey - The dusty pit next to the governor's office here looks like any other archaeological dig. Workers chip away gingerly at a half-buried stone wall, carting off the crumbling bricks in a wheelbarrow.
The walls were originally the cellars of houses built 50 to 70 years ago in the early years of the Turkish Republic.
Beneath them, archaeologists have uncovered a staircase dating from the late Ottoman Empire, perhaps a century or two old. And lurking beneath that is a genuine treasure: a stone arch that forms part of a cistern from the late-Byzantine period, which ended in 1453."
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