2006-08-28 03:39:43 · 12 answers · asked by L W interested 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
A lot of the time, it's just due to the building having collapsed over the years. Tons of matter, dirt and dust, enter the earth's atmosphere every day and some of it falls on the site. There are also terrestial polluters... like volcanos.. the put tons of dust into the air. Then, of course, in desert areas, there is the sand.
Eventually, over the centuries, the site get's covered over.
2006-08-28 03:41:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are quite a few ancient buildings that are above ground. Have you heard of the Pyramids? Corf Castle? Stone Henge?
Very few of them are actually 'buried' they just get a bit covered up by other things going on around.
Go out in to your garden and have a bit of a dig around. I would think that you would be amazed at how many objects you find that you recognise - and it has taken only a couple of years for them to get there!
2006-08-28 04:00:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer, believe it or not, is EARTHWORMS!. These industrious little beasts are constantly recycling soil. The result is that, if nothing is done to prevent it happening, any structure on the surface will gradualy be covered by soil from beneath. Other forces such as earthquakes etc. may play a part in particular places but it it is the common earthworm that is responsible for most archeology.
2006-08-28 03:55:00 · answer #3 · answered by Brack the Barbarian 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
historic cities have been places the place a number of textile accumulates very quickly. on the instant we've centers the cart waste and refuse away. 2000 years in the past - no longer plenty. Older structures grew to alter into ruins. ruins grew to alter into quarries for brand spanking new construction textile. the guidelines have been reused for brand spanking new homes. It grew to become into less demanding to easily build on genuine of what grew to become into there reusing the textile particularly than cart it away. Now it truly is unusual to have finished structures that are buried - that occurs from cataclysmic events - Volcanoes, airborne dirt and dirt flows, floods, sandstorms and desertification, subsidence. There at the instant are not too many places like that yet they are in call for (e.g. Pompeii, Herculaneum).
2016-11-05 22:57:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. There are a lot of natural events that could bury buildings, like volcanos.
2006-08-28 03:47:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one buried them - but throughout time, dust and dirt has settled on them burying them underground. Other natural disaters like floods or earthquakes may contribute as well.
2006-08-28 03:41:47 · answer #6 · answered by Sharp Marble 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the ones that were above ground were destroyed by people and nature, and the artifacts were looted. Only the ones that were buried have survived intact.
2006-08-28 03:42:56 · answer #7 · answered by 006 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the ones that weren't buried were eroded away, so we never found them. Same reason why you don't find fossils sitting around on the surface of the ground.
2006-08-28 03:42:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apart from all other considerations, if they were available to all and sundry, the grafitti merchants would have a field day and ffffffk everything up!
2006-08-28 03:59:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's where you find archeaology, give it another few hundred years we'll probably all be down there as well.
2006-08-28 03:46:32 · answer #10 · answered by bambam 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋