Why Liverpool Is Sitting On The Most Valuable Land In Human History

Why Liverpool Is Sitting On The Most Valuable Land In Human History In 2001, archaeologists began digging in the middle of Liverpool, on a site that was about to become one of the biggest shopping developments in Britain. Under the ground, they found walls. Old, massive, curving brick walls. They had found a dock, buried for nearly two centuries. Not just any dock. The world's first enclosed commercial wet dock, the place where modern Liverpool began. And that's not even the most valuable thing under this city. Liverpool sits on a desert that turned to stone, a river with one of the biggest tides in Britain, and empty gas fields under the sea that are about to swallow millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide. This is why Liverpool is sitting on the most valuable land in human history.