Why do whole cities seem to be swallowed up in the earth over only a few hundred years? Is the entire planet's crust just continually sinking or what? How does this work mechanically, like does the rain bring down dust that layers it over time? Do people never clean? Why don't our medieval buildings or regular homes from 200 years ago sink into the ground?
Why do things become buried?
Why don't our medieval buildings or regular homes from 200 years ago sink into the ground?
they do if they dont get regular maintenance and renovations.
I think you have to understand there were VASTLY fewer humans before the industrial revolution
If they aren't constantly maintained dirt and dust blows over them until grass and weeds take root and make soil that is constantly building up over time.
let alone when complex objects like a statue is unearthed. How could a statue stay in the same place for enough time to be swallowed by earth ?
if you don't touch something for 100 years nature conquers the fuck out of it
Usually floods bring mud, dirt and stones and bury it or wind blowing sand/dirt and other shit over many years bury it.
TL;DR: Time and nature happens
yeap, there's plenty of free grass cutter video on ytube and part of those videos is them uncovering a hidden sidewalk cover over time, it only take a few decades at most.
Not only that but the roots and what not start breaking down the stone too, not only be penetrating the rock, but also by deforming the earth around it, creating irregularities that overtime not only break it but it creates holes and small uplifts, just like you have on a bigger scale.
But yeah, example on OP is a more arid place despite greenery around it.
As a side note, talking about damage from natural disasters to cities, here is satellite imagery taken this year of Antioch in the city center after the 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit in 2023
and here is what the street view looked like from google in 2022 before the earthquake.
Wind, rain and dirt.
Here is a statue of Trajan found during that same excavation in Laodicea. It was in hundred of pieces, they think it was toppled by an earthquake and covered over, so it was "very well" preserved
Snow is water bonded to a speck of dust/dirt. In the spring when the snow melts the dirt stays.
Because more dirt keeps appearing on earth
because aliens are burying them. that's the Anon Babbletard conspiracy you wanted to hear right?
Because ulysses rescued the children from the giant cyclops. And now the gods of Olympus are angry.
Yeah, I’ve been waiting to hear the nefarious explanation
Why
aliens
The Antioch earthquake wasn't a natural phenomenon. The city was zapped by glownigger satellites. No such thing back in ancient times.
Why don't our medieval buildings or regular homes from 200 years ago sink into the ground?
Anon, they do.
Example in picture , anything in a pit is going to get buried / filled in by dust /dirt carried by wind or water erosion.
The more light debris the faster it will fill ,be covered , like desert sands.
In Mexico plants cover old sights , the plants them selves collect and form soil , more plants grow, soon it’s buried. Humans live in a speck of geologic time, so it’s hard to see the effects day to day.
Bro it looks like they dug a whole to make that stadium. So just dirt fills in the hole over time.
i always wondered this too. i mean i guess i can accept dust and stuff just really gradually over time blows over them. but like Troy has 11 layers of diferent cities in the same place throughout a 3000 years one buried beneath the last. i cant quite grok it
I was a land surveyor for a long time. We would find all sorts of shit deep in the woods. Maybe 100-200 years old, totally forgotten. You posted something that is 2225 years old
Excessive groundwater extraction from wells can cause cities to sink. Land subsidence in Bejing is 5.5 mm per year according to one study i read. Also affects areas like the Texas Eagle Ford shale gas deposits because of fracking.
Dust.
only a few hundred years
200BC
What did Op mean by this?
The tribunes are literally still on the surface after 22 centuries
Do you not know what sedimentation is ?
We literally live on several kilometre deep layers of old buried soil and prehistoric trash
LOOK AT DETROIT RETARD
Top tier french kino
French movies tend to be really bad but french anime has always been god tier
tintin (really good)
asterix
marsupilami
code lyoko
totally spies
those weird football shows
Ulysse 31 (amazing)
wakfu
I am probably missing a few
Meanwhile Americans made He-man, transformers and GI joe, animation is only good thanks to japan and France honestly
Saharan dust
Do people never clean?
Who cleans ghost towns?
Abandon a settlement for a decade or two and the jungle takes it all back.
Dust flows out of sahara, dirt from other places does not flow into sahara
Except they don't as has been proved scientifically for decades.
Just because you aren't up to date on science doesn't mean you know what you're talking about
t. Civil engineer with a love for archeology
Ulysse 31
i recently watched this. Aged badly to say the least.
dirt slowly builds up. that's why if you dig down its older the farther you go. earth is in a cycle of things going down, turning to lava and shooting up again as lava, or being pushed to the sky as mountains.
oh yeah. I've lived in my home for about 15 years an already have to occasionally dig dirt away from my sidewalk and driveway that its trying to swallow. a big reason why large cities are slightly lower than surrounding areas, w keep cleaning and maintaining and removing dirt
dust becomes dirt and plants grow and die creating more dirt
endless natural cycling
You think so? Idk maybe the translation is bad
I watched it as a young kid and loved it
Watched it more recently a second time and it was still kino
It’s the kind of old European myths I was raised on, probably the only form of modern media that is still spiritually entirely like antiquity
There are gods but you can fight them and win, you shouldn’t give up you should struggle no matter if it takes decades of pain to save your family etc
The music and sound effects were great, the animation was a bit low budget but for thé time it was great
There were so many cool ideas too, a time warping space station controlled by chronos where he literally tried to age you to death, a lot of things that appear friendly but are traps all throughout the series (teaches kids to be cautious and not naive)
What did you dislike about it?
Dirt doesnt build up. It flows out of Sahara.
Specifically out of Sahara. Things in Sahara dont get buried up, they get uncovered
Sedimentation. Do it long enough and the layers of dirt are compacted into stone under by weight of the dirt and water above them.
science
up to date
I love how open you niggers are about never being right about anything and having to fabricate every theorem, “law,” and proof, and yet you insist everything is de facto. Until next week, at least.
Tell me, science man: coffee, good for you?
Why do whole cities seem to be swallowed up in the earth over only a few hundred years?
Look at your own pic: if it rains heavily where do you figure the water is gonna go and carry the mud? Same thing when it comes to small settlements in valleys. In fact, people in the past favored valleys precisely because water tends to flows down there, creating streams that can be used for drinking or irrigation. But in the long run, water and wind carry soil down there and cover everything. It takes longer than a few hundred years, though.
Go live in the wilderness, a cabin in the woods or something like that.
You will be impressed at how fucking fast dust just starts piling up.
I'm getting really sick of stupid fucking nigger teenagers pretending to know shit about the world when they've never DONE anything.
HURR DURR HOW DO THING GET BURIED
Go outside and make a nice little stone pathway in your fucking yard. In five years it will be overgrown if you don't maintain the edges. Not just covered in plants, but covered in soil. How did this happen? Where did the extra soil come from? Most of topsoil is composed of decayed plant matter. Soil GROWS UPWARDS as the plants grow and go through the yearly winter/spring cycles of vegetation death and rebirth.
If your stone walkway can lose an inch of diameter in a few years, then something that's been carved into the fucking earth for TWO THOUSAND YEARS can be covered in a layer of soil, windblown dirt, and vegetation, you RETARDED FUCKING DO-NOTHING FAGGOTS WITH SO LITTLE LIFE EXPERIENCE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR FRONT YARD FUCKING WORKS.
NIGGERS.
How EXACTLY did Anon Babble jannies deem this thread off topic???
Fucking mods
Anyways I’m still there germanon if you want to finish your post
How EXACTLY did Anon Babble jannies deem this thread off topic???
You forgot to mention Sandy Loam.
lmao
Where is this meme from we need more civil engineering Anon Babble memes
I'll be checking the show out at least thanks to your post, anon.
leaves get on stuff.
leaves turn to dirt
little bit every year
moving water carries sediment
standing water attempts to level the earth
"sinking" is the wrong way to think about it
nature covers on top. not really pulling beneath
Besides what many already mentioned, also the buildings themselves provide material that covers them. The upper stories, roofs etc collapse and then slowly decompose, even stone and brick get broken up by sunlight, temperature differences, microbes.
So there is a layer of dirt mounds from the collapsed parts of buildings themselves which then get flattened by wind and rain, overgrown by vegetation, the roots make the material decompose further, move it around, add layers of humus etc.
bant has good answers, way to represent