How deep under the surface is the town and what covered it up? I am fascinated by these old Roman ruins. I lived in Naples Italy for four years (Military) and often visited pompeii and Herculaneum to watch the excavations. So was this town also covered by some sort of volcanic activity?
How deep under the surface is the town and what covered it up?
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That’s what happens when you don’t vacuum or sweep for several hundred years.
I looked up some photos on Google, and some foundations and walls are still above ground. Over the centuries I’d say many stones and blocks were removed to be used on other projects.
What Moonman62 said. Rain-induced erosion, wind-(ditto), seasonal flooding, earthworm activity, later people using the place for a quarry and dump, later people building over it...