Idea: Special Artifacts for Hidden Antiquity Sites

Hey, this is a really great idea, we should make sure the developers are aware of this list, because the hidden antiquity sites really need some love to become an interesting feature, and this would definitely add a lot of flavor.
 
Would be pretty cool to have sites that generate tourism and or other yields and artifacts that generate tourism and other yields. Have each dig produce both randomly. So I could go to someone elses land. Dig up the site, bargain how many of the artifacts I can take then leave the site for them to generate tourism from. Everyone wins.

Also I would like to see Great Archeologist units that can dig up a site quickly and gain extra artifacts.
 
Ok, here goes my ideas for these special artifacts from all over the world :)

Base yield: +3 culture +3 tourism
Additional effects:

Rosetta Stone (found in Egypt): +3 culture when exposed in a museum, +6 culture when exposed in a wonder with an artifact slot

Stele of the Vultures found in Mesopotamia: +4 culture when exposed in a wonder with art slots

Rongo rongo, found on the Eastern Island: +10 science when exposed in any wonder with writting slots

Crown of Gaya, found in Korea: +3 tourism when exposed on museum, +6 tourism when exposed on palace

The Koh-i-Noor diamond, found on India: +5 gold when exposed in a museum, +10 gold when exposed in palace

Sword of Goujian, found on Hubei, China: +25 xp to units built on this city when exposed in museum, +50 xp when exposed in palace

Antikythera mechanism found in the Greek coast: +4 science when exposed in a museum, +8 science when exposed at the national collegue

Wulfing cache, found in Missouri, USA: +4 happiness when exposed in a museum, +8 happiness when exposed in the national college

Coatlicue statue, discovered on the main plaza at Mexico City: +3 faith +3 culture and +3 happiness when exposed in the great temple or pantheon wonder

Shroud of Turin, discovery site unkown: +10 faith when exposed in a cathedral, great temple, or sixtine chappel

- All these bonuses doubles once you finish the Aestethic SP tree
- Digging unique artifacts in foreign civilizations that has also finished this tree will result into MAJOR diplomatic penalties
- Unique artifacts are not suceptible for swapping. Finders, keepers!

As you can see, the possible combos with certain wonders and SP makes for very interesting choices to be made :)
 
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