Visitors don’t have to enter the restaurant to see the road and the skeletons (the originals were removed and replaced with replicas), as there is a separate, free entrance behind the restaurant where there is a glass-enclosed museum gallery under the floor where visitors can alongside the ancient cobblestones.
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Enjoy a side of Roman history with your meal.
As a note:
Visitors don’t have to enter the restaurant to see the road and the skeletons (the originals were removed and replaced with replicas), as there is a separate, free entrance behind the restaurant, where there is a glass-enclosed museum gallery in the basement, where visitors can walk along the ancient cobblestones.
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Sources:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/italys-newest-mcdonalds-part-archaeological-museum-871589
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-mcdonalds-has-cool-design-element-ancient-roman-road-180962289/
https://hyperallergic.com/italian-mcdonalds-serves-up-a-side-of-roman-ruins/
I like to imagine the ghosts of the Roman bodies there wander the McDonald's
welcome to capitalism, dear Roman. we're gonna use your bones as restaurant decoration, hope you don't mind.
gives 'McRib' a whole new meaning lol
hadn't been seeing you in my feed , saw your post and came to catch up!! 🫶🏻
Yes, here in Italy if we want to dig deeper than one meter for some construction work we have to call an archeologist because…well, this happens often for obvious reasons
"I'll have what he's having."
one time in history mcdonald's did something good
I don't eat fast food, but I sure would visit this MickeyDs 🦴💀
This reminds me of the one strip of land in Tonala, Mexico where theres a reconstruction of a native burial with a glass panel between 2 roads near the outdoor market
I didn’t think they’d keep the bones visible
Im sure those guys were like one day i would like to be a tourist attraction under a fast food restaurant
Finally something really good made by the Americans for us
Imagine eating a McRib on top of a skeleton rib 🦴
Disgusting. Disturbing a grave is the lowest. Really Italy?
aaaand we ruined it with the shitty fast food corpo on it 🙂 I love my country!
All roads lead to Mc Donalds???
Humiliating but more respectful than ripping them apart like your average projects
Absolutely despicable, really. 😒👎
Ghosts of Roman’s always at McDonald’s now
Interesting, 2014 was also the year McDonald’s stopped using Ronald McDonald as an official mascot….
Willing to bet they were either slaves or failed bandits who got killed and buried on the side of the road
Over my dead body will they be building a McDonald's 😂
I can't believe McDonalds is over 2000 years old. 🤯
"instead of removing…" As if they could!!, this is not the US, if ruins are discovered you need to either cover back again or protect and display like in the video.
Wow!
Rare Mickey D's win.
I betcha 2000 years ago, those people were probably saying, "I really hope that one day they'll display my remains in a permanent open-air display at a McDonalds." I betcha!
Thank god you confirmed the skeletons are replicas. I mean, I'm not even going to pretend my pessimistic concern is out of nowhere….so I'm just glad to know that in this case, it was wrong.
Yeah it's not that they could simply destroy it, we have rules!
Near Naples there's a military base for families of Americans stationed there, and in the supermarket there thry have some glass floors in the aisles showing Roman reminans, I'd assume they also found them during construction
A great part of Italy is like so; if you dig you could find something romans or medieval
Shoulda made the building look old and Romanerrrr (LIKE MAKE IT LOOK LIKE THE FLOOR)