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

Typically they are abandoned and then covered in vegetation first, the moss and leaves hide it from view while the dirt builds up high enough (and enough of the structure collapses) for it to be completely reclaimed by nature, then some long time later it is built on top of