Choose the best option: Which of the following is not true?

A. Though the town was completely destroyed, there were 2,000 people remained.

B. The inhabitants didn’t have any chance of leaving the town.

C. After the year of 1748, archaeologists realized that the site was one of the most astonishing ruins of all time.

D. But for Rocco Alcubierre the excavation work wouldn’t have begun in 1748.