I live in Rome and they often say that it’s difficult to build a subway because of all the ruins underground, so i’ve always wondered, how can an ancient city get so deep underground? Where does all the dirt covering them come from? Were they covered on purpose so they could build over them, or is this a natural phenomenon?
You can especially see this in the foro romano where the ruins are so low underground compared to the streets you can walk on
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Imagine you didn’t dust your house for 2000 years. That’d be a thick later of dust, wouldn’t it?
As from where the dirt comes from… Everywhere. Rocks constantly erode, there’s dust blown over from the Sahara, etc.
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