[Deaf Smith]

Israel is only 8,700 square miles and has been inhabited on and off for thousands of years.

Why hasn’t every square foot of the country been mapped and explored by now?

[Red Badger]

The Nahal Zohar dig is part of a sweeping Judean Desert project led by the IAA’s Robbery Prevention Unit, which has surveyed 180 km. of cliffs and identified roughly 900 caves.

[1malumprohibitum]

My very unprofessional opinion is that it is because people “see” what is in front of them and mostly take it for granted that it has always looked the same. Few people look and think what is 50 ft or 100 ft below what I see? Floods and cataclysms and regular weather over centuries all combine to bury the past. I do agree that the relatively small area should be much more explored and “known”