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Over 5,000 artifacts from more than 2,000 years of history were found during a man's quest to fix his toilet.
All Luciano Faggiano wanted was a working toilet in the building he dreamed of turning into a trattoria in Lecce. After seven years of hunting for an elusive broken sewage pipe, they discovered over 2,000 years worth of archaeological finds - leading them to uncover a tomb from the Messapians, an ancient Greek tribe that lived in the area centuries before Christianity arose. The family also found remnants of a Franciscan chapel, etchings from the Knights Templar, an old Jesuit ring adorned with Christian symbols, and a Roman granary.
