People weren't just " roaming" around if you know what I'm saying and the artifacts discovered include hundreds of Roman coins, jewelry and fragments of pottery.
It's been used to make everything from jewelry to figurines, to piano keys, but it's also led to the decimation of some elephant species by poachers, people who illegally killed the animals for their ivory.
There's also a great night market further into town that has all kinds of food and cool little shops selling souvenirs and local jewelry and clothing made by hand.
With a number of historic renovations that go on in this town, workers have always got a lot of tales about the discovery of treasures behind the walls, gold and jewelry things like that.
Food is not the only recourse for a sad lover. One friend of mine soothes her broken heart by going shopping — buying new clothes and new shoes, maybe a piece of jewelry — to make herself feel better.