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Pristine Ruins

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Timgad, in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria, is sometimes nicknamed "the Pompeii of Africa." The Roman grid plan of this city, where my wife and daughter were walking, is remarkably well preserved.

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"They must be dumping garbage — good, it makes for good fertilizer!"

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"Dottoré, I know a lot of flags, and let me tell you why. I grew up in the province of Caserta, and — like everybody in those days — my parents owned a piece of land, and they would take me with them to farm it.

I remember there were other kids in the fields around us. But then, slowly, we were the only ones left because everybody was selling the land, making a lot of money off of it too.

Papà wouldn't listen to reason and he kept the land. But in the meantime, instead of farmers, trucks began to arrive. Many many trucks, unloading thousands of barrels and burying them into the ground.

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