Eli5 – Why are we finding entire homes and streets in archaeological digs? doesn’t anyone notice a street or building starting to get covered in dirt and dust? at some point someone must notice the old plato theatre is knee high into the earth?

Question

Eli5 – Why are we finding entire homes and streets in archaeological digs? doesn’t anyone notice a street or building starting to get covered in dirt and dust? at some point someone must notice the old plato theatre is knee high into the earth?

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Answer 1

The five year old answer you need: sometimes people don’t like what they made, and they are lazy bones who don’t want to start over, so just like you do with the food you don’t want to eat that you stuff under the carpet, people would just make stuff on top of what they didn’t like.