Why is so much of our history below the surface we live on today?

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How has archeology a thing? Why is so much of our history found under the ground we reside today? Why do we have to dig down to find ancient towns? What happened?

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Manmade feature that aren’t buried tend to erode and degrade and are lost to time unless they are truly enormous and sturdy like the Great Pyramids or Roman architecture. Things that are buried by deposition, avalanche, mud slide or any number of other geological forces tend to be preserved.

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