life imitates art

[waider]

Italian guy discovers buried Roman villa through Google Maps - wasn't this part of the setup for some book or another? The vague details I recall involve the site being revealed as shadows in an overhead shot, but utterly invisible from on-site unless you stood at just the right place at the right time. And there was something about sealed jars in catacombs containing some sort of virus, too. I initially thought I might be thinking of Crichton's Congo, but it's not that.

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[boutell.livejournal.com]

There's a David Brin short story like that. I lost the collection it's in and never got to read the last five pages or so. No catacombs that I recall, otherwise very close to that, it's finally noticed by astronauts that all paths seem to lead away from it...