Trying To Save Ancient Road From Subway

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) ? When a brand-new subway system hits an ancient road, surely something has to give. But in one northern Greek city, archaeologists are fighting to combine the two, against government plans to remove and display elsewhere a large section of an ancient Roman thoroughfare found on a planned subway station. Some 200 people, including many state-employed archaeologists, on Oct. 7 formed a chain round the central Thessaloniki site, beating drums and holding a banner reading 'Culture is not business.' The protest was organized by the Association of Greek Archaeologists, which wants the metro station re-designed to incorporate the ancient remains and has raised more than 12,000 signatures in an online petition to preserve the road.

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