Found just inside the Vatican's northern walls during excavations for an underground garage, the tombs were declared by Francesco Buranelli, director of the museums, to be "a necropolis with no equal in Rome". He said the site, dating from the first to third century A.D., includes about 30 mausoleums and 60 individuals tombs in mostly "excellent" condition.
It will then pay to have the graveyard, which was found during the excavation for an underground garage, encased in concrete.
The hundreds of Vietnamese were detained during a raid at an underground textile factory not far from Cherkizovsky Market, which the authorities shut down in 2009 after citing health and safety violations.
Most of the material is in 23 crates of tar, clay and mud that were removed in 2007 during the digging of an underground parking garage at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which also sits next to the tar pits.
Mr Verbitsky, who during the 1970s ran an underground news service, said Mr Kissinger made it difficult for the US embassy in Buenos Aires to pressure Argentina's generals on human rights violations.
The occurrence of many buildings' collapse in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is caused by groundwater leakages in the reception area of a shield tunnel machine during the construction of an underground metro subway tunnel.
The concreting over of the Vinohrady ("vineyards") area and the development of the riverside Park of Culture and Relaxation (PKO) area are particular sore points, while damage to Roman remains beneath the castle during the construction of an underground car park for the adjacent parliament building caused a stir.
These uses could be housed considerably more simply than they are by the new structure but, after the Roman ruins had wbeen discovered during excavations to build an underground car park, it was eventually decided to take the opportunity to make a statement.
The space, once a pub serving German invaders during the war, later an underground bar for gangsters, has a new, nobler purpose.
