Fixing a pipe led to this?

          A recent story has come out about the quest an Italian man set out on to complete nearly 15 years ago: the fixing of a leaking pipe. Luciano Fagianno had just moved in with his family to a new house in Lecce, Italy with the hopes of opening a new trattoria. The only problem was that the sewage kept backing up, so Fagianno got his two sons to help him dig up the pipe. The job was only predicted to take a week, but this was before Fagianno discovered a false floor, and then below this a room of medieval stone. They dug even deeper finding a tomb of the Messapians, who lived during the time of Jesus. And if this wasn't enough, yet another set of chambers was discovered. One was the basement of a Franciscan nuns' convent, and the other was a Roman grain house. The excavation beneath the house went on for several more years before city officials were notified of it, and they responded by sending several archaeologists out to examine the findings. The excavation still remained under Fagianno's control, and it kind of became an obsession for him. More recently, Fagianno has been able to turn the hous into his own museum, while also fufilling his dream of opening his own trattoria.

          I was fascinated reading this article simply because as a guy living in Nebraska, I don't really walk over 2,500 years of architectural history daily. While this discovery may seem like a very rare occurrence to us living in such a young country, there are people digging up ancient history all over Italy. I will admit that the way Fagianno discovered the ruins beneath his house, and the manner in which he excavated it, was quite amusing. Nevermind the fact that the guy was lowering his 12 year old son in a bucket down into who knows what. He didn't even tell his wife what he was doing. She only discovered his secret after growing suspicious of all the dirty clothes around the house. More than anything, I want to know how Fagianno managed to hide his discovery from his wife. Even in all of the excitement, Fagianno still never lost sight of his original goal and after several years of digging he finally discovered the pipe that had alluded him so long. That's what I call perseverance.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-italian-history-are-unearthed-in-quest-to-fix-toilet.html?_r=0