In the spring of 2015, I received “an offer I could not refuse”: to participate in the excavation of the old Faliron racecourse in order to proceed with the construction of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre. For the following five and a half months, I participated in the discovery of individual and group graves of people who had died violent deaths, therefore witnessing the worst face of antiquity but also the destructive indifference of a so-called “cultural” foundation towards the discovery of the century.