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Out of genuine curiosity/confusion, could someone explain how something like this gets "discovered?" It's a two story building that's 66 feet tall according to
by grardb 11y ago
Out of genuine curiosity/confusion, could someone explain how something like this gets "discovered?" It's a two story building that's 66 feet tall according to the article. Is it something that locals have seen but never cared about? Or have people just not been walking around that immediate area for the past several thousand years?
Perhaps because I'm from a super dense urban metro area, I don't fully appreciate how stuff like this works. I'd love to know!
- maaku 11y agoUsually buildings that old are under big piles of dirt.
- egeekuk 11y agoLooks like it hasn't been that tall for some time, having been burnt down after it was abandoned[0] [0] - http://www.livescience.com/48352-prehistoric-ukraine-temple-discovered.html http://www.livescience.com/48352-prehistoric-ukraine-temple-...
- etiene 11y agoI can get covered by dust, vegetation etc. and need excavation to be found, just like fossils underground
- etiene 11y agoIt can get covered by dust, vegetation etc. and need excavation to be found, just like fossils underground
- theklub 11y agoThere are also a lot of places that governments have restricted access too, or won't let anyone dig. They know there are ancient ruins in a spot but unearthing them would be illegal.
- dghughes 11y agoLayers accumulate over the years (rhythmite I think it's called), vegetation can take over, natural decay.
- veddox 11y agoThey detected the structure using underground imaging techniques, the uppermost layer of objects was half a meter below the current ground surface. (The whole excavation took eight weeks, if you are interested in more details, check out the article I quoted above.)