It is very believable. Finding a rat's nest in an old structure can sometime be as
good as finding an old un-disturbed burial tomb. Bits of cloth, wallpaper,
jewelery, coins, pottery bits, buttons, bones from dinner, bits of newsprint, ...
and if you are dealing with the big rats from Texas, wagon wheels, tilt top
tables, back hoes, primaries....

Ricky T. Rat. cuz of Micky T. Mouse
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Met History wrote:

> Subj:         Rats and Architecture
> Date:   00-03-15 18:23:13 EST
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> From: Travis C McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
>  I am researching rats and their interaction with people in buildings,
>  specifically the archaeology of rats' nests and clues to cultural life in a
>  house. Someone mentioned seeing something on the History Channel about a
>  temple in India honoring rats. Does anyone know anything specific about
>  this place or others like it? Books where I can read and see such places? And
>  any  stories about rats' nests or other rats-architecture connections would
> be
>  very much appreciated.
>
>  Travis McDonald
>  Director of Architectural Restoration
>  Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
>  P.O. Box 419
>  Forest, VA  24551
>  (804)525-1806