ELI5- how do we identify ancient ruins like did anyone stumble upon the colosseum in the woods or people were used to see some old walls then someone realized this could be the colosseum from olden books!
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A good example of this is Chitzen Itza. It was literally overgrown until people stumbled into it and started unearthing it.
it had been ”lost” during the Spanish conquest and redistribution of property ownership In the 1500s and 1600s. Serious archeology of the site did not occur until the 1900s.
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