体验莱茵河上的无国界旅游

Sunrise to Sunset at Europe's Crossroads Exploring the Past and the Present in Basel, Switzerland Excavation is a snapshot of history and borderless Basel 2,000 years ago. I'm back at Augusta Raurica, delving 2,000 years ago.

It's one of the things you can do here from sunrise to sunset. You don't have to dig deep here before you stumble upon some ancient bric-a-brac.

Human? No, animal. More than a million objects have been unearthed here, but so far, I haven't struck gold.

This is interesting. What's this? Yes. Well, we'd have to dig it out to see exactly, but it's obviously a bit of ceramic, obviously some pot or other-

I think that would be the handle there-but because we are very systematic in the way we dig, we have to wait until that's been recorded before we can take it out and have a good look at it.

It's too tempting! Let me at it. No, no, no.

Why is this exciting for you? Since two thousand years ago, nobody touched it, and I'm the first to touch it and the first to find what has been here in former times.

It just takes a long time to find it all. If patience isn't your virtue, then hop on a toboggan across the border in Germany, but beware--it's a fast and furious ride down.

Here we go. Hey! Whoa! You think when you get on this thing that you're going to leave the brakes off and see just how fast you can go.

Let me tell you, you do no such thing once you're up and running. They won't go faster than 42 kilometers an hour, and that's pretty fast.