It can be very confusing to visit an archaeological site and only see the remains of the foundations of buildings. It is very difficult to imagine that these were once complete buildings with rooms, roofs and people living there. There is often little in the archaeological evidence to indicate upper stories to the dwellings — unless we find a staircase, which is very rare. What you see in the ground at some archaeological sites are just the foundations, and the buildings would be metres taller.
Why did people in the past live underground? Did people really live so deep underground? A deep pit under excavation. An example of an archaeological site in West Ham with a multitude of rubbish pits. An example of buried building foundations from Greenwich, London. Comments There are no comments for this article Commenting is closed for this article. What kind of things do archaeologists do?
Years of flooding, wind, and even volcanic eruptions serve to preserve ancient sites. And despite their best efforts, archaeologists still struggle to find many rumored underground cities.
Of course, we can only assume these ten cities are out there, somewhere, waiting to be discovered. The ancient city once described by Plato has been "found" multiple times—and on many different continents. LiveScience explains that researchers rolled their eyes when folks in Spain exclaimed that they'd found Atlantis. Most scientists think it's "rubbish," and there's not enough information to confirm the findings.
So, Atlantis remains a mystery. It might by mythological, but it also might be somewhere in northwestern Mexico or the southwestern United States. Most folks who know their Bible well remember the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and how the cities of those names had judgment passed on them.
It's said that the cities are somewhere in the area of the Dead Sea, but to date, no site has been found that otherwise matches the ancient texts that describe the lost cities.
While there was even a movie made about El Dorado, more recent research suggests that the name referred to a glorious ruler who bathed in gold hence "dorado," which means golden in a handful of Latin languages.
But if there is a city by the same name out there, it's clearly under tons of dirt by now, meaning archaeologists may never know the true story. Apparently, somewhere in the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa is an ancient city. No doubt, it currently lies under tons of sand if it exists at all , but some "unusual rock formations" suggest there's more than lies on the surface. Ultimately, one researcher figured out the most likely spot to search and said that a set of "monumental rocks" was all that was there, notes Wikipedia.
Shell middens, which are mountains of shells from seafood processing, are one sign researchers are excavating for to learn more about how early peoples traveled, explains Discover Magazine. But the coastal civilizations would be underwater at this point, far under the ocean and layers of dirt , say scientists. Before modern rubbish collection and landfill sites, rubbish was buried near to your house, sometimes after laying around above ground for quite a while. Planning laws did not exist, and shoddy building techniques were common — houses often fell down.
Houses built of wood burnt down easily and sometimes rotted in the damp climate of Britain. Often these buildings were left to decay, or were pulled down and houses built on top or nearby. Sometimes things get buried because of sudden changes in the landscape such as flooding, volcanic eruptions or earthquakes.
Pompeii is an example of how quickly things can be buried. Mount Vesuvius erupted over two days in August AD79, burying the wealthy Roman city of Herculaneum and neighbouring Pompeii under piles of ash and rubble that preserved the archaeology. In some countries, huge mounds called tells built up over time, containing layer after layer of demolished houses and rubbish, with new buildings just constructed over the top.
A tell consists mostly of architectural remains — stone, mudbrick and loam, as well as domestic and industrial waste. Tells are most commonly found in Near Eastern archaeology, although there are also examples from Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria.
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