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More than 40 years of excavations at the palace site have produced a picture of the medieval Royal Palace of King Mátyás; it is possible to visit the ten or so rooms that have survived from the original, now reconstructed in their former state.
The whole area was razed during Barbarian attacks in the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire and was covered with new buildings during Byzantine times, all of which had to be cleared when excavations began.
The gist of the coverage was that Saramago, a Portuguese novelist known for his playful excavations of Iberian history, is the real thing , an inheritor of the majestic European literary tradition and the last best hope for the serious novel.
Excavations of tombs have also been fruitful and the museum displays some beautiful clay sarcophagi.
Excavations of the site continued until 1937, when most of the fossils were carried out of war-torn China by foreigners, never to return.