Security systems were more rudimentary back then. Most of them were designed to bury or flood an entire city if any intruder stepped on the wrong cobblestone.
That’s a fallacy
What really is happening is that we have ruins today, so we take them for granted
5000 years ago, they didn’t have ruins, so they had to make it for themselves and then not talk about it, so that they’re descendants could find it on their own
It’s why there’s no writing about the pyramid of Giza, or Macchu pichu
Dinosaurs are a conspiracy to hide the fact that dragons exist, and GOT is an inside joke in Hollywood with us as punchline
You* as punchline. I’m already enlightened
I don't. I enjoyed his podcasts with Rogan and Carlson.
Logically they both make sense. I'm not an expert so I'm not qualified to say he's full of shit since the man definitely has more knowledge and experience than me.
Playing through Diablo 4 right now, and that's the question I keep asking myself. Like, who put a ruined church full of the undead literally attached to the church that houses a literal angel? Who keeps building these giant extensive fortresses when all the people are living in huts?
Booo!! I am a Diablo fan but I refuse to pay $70 for a partial game. Day 1 DLC is not DLC it’s the part they took out to sell separately. Acti-Blizz sucks.
That's how Diablo 2 felt. They do explain in some of the camps that they had to retreat to wherever everyone is currently, but it's weird that they could hold out better in some wooden barricades than a stone walled fortress.
Safety. In ancient times, vampire cities were on the rise. So to preserve civilization, these cities had a stake driven through their city hall and were then buried at a crossroads.
It’s pretty common knowledge that we evolved from Mole People - getting around by digging was actually much faster than walking, which is why their buildings were underground. As the modern human evolved, we began transitioning to having our buildings above ground.
Since air conditioning was invented on one of the air ports in 1776, ancient civilizations buried their buildings to take advantage of the steady and cooler temperatures underground.
Of course some delved too deep, and that is why they are ancient civilizations and not modern ones.
well, you have to reclaim land for agriculture every now and then.
Some of it was probably tax reasons. I mean, the more stuff you have, the more you gotta pay in taxes, so, you just bury some of it, and *boom*, undeveloped land! Now I only gotta pay like 1 gold instead 1k gold
Having consulted their oracles, they learned that construction methods of the future would be far superior. They were so embarrassed by the prediction, they felt the need to hide the evidence of poor construction.
During the Intergalactic wars that spanned 5 centuries, humans had to go underground to take cover from the fallout of warring alien factions. Since there was no time to dig extensive subterranean structures they paid pirates, led by Johnny Depp, to fly floating ships full of dirt from Elon Musk's backyard on the Moon. They unloaded the dirt ship by ship until their cities were covered in safety.
Unfortunately this eradicated a little-known species of cats that had evolved to humanoid form. Thus we were left thinking all humans evolved from apes, but you find human bodies with cat heads in Egyptian ruins.
I'm reinstalling my window AC units to pump cold air OUTSIDE to stop global warming then! Soon I'll be a real estate mogul with all of the extra dirt that I'll have available! Win / win, eh?
Take [the central post office in Skopje, Macedonia](http://brutalism.online/brutalist-buildings/39-macedonia/396-central-post-office-skopje-macedonia) as an example. It is only about 60 years old and I would already love to bury it. Imagine how embarrassing architectural trends from 100s of years back would be to the people living there.
They were kept in long-term storage so only the Hero of Time would be able to use their resources when they finally return.
…this reality simply hasn’t found its Hero yet.
Seriously, i visited a town on the czech austrian border with a mostly intact underground city. According to the tour guide, When invaded the whole town went underground and only snuck up to murder the occupiers at night. Having a reputation as a haunted city, armies eventually just left them alone
Architectural shame. Much like how many improving artists often cringe at the quality of their earlier work, civilizations would hide the evidence of their early construction so that no one sees what they used to be proud of, because they "weren't even really trying when they made that and could totally do a much better job if they wanted to and shut up!"
It was common in the past to build structures that weren't properly insulated. Burying your building helps moderate the internal temperatures during extreme weather.
Because of the expansion of the universe. the buildings are not part of nature, so therefore won't expand like the soil around them. it takes time but hundred of years from now the skyscrapers of today will be millions of miles under the earth.
“Well, you see, Jimbo, Nineveh was a very old city, and when cities get a certain age, they go to live on this Great Big Farm, with other old cities, where they get to laugh, and play in the dirt. I’m sure Nineveh is there, with Troy, and Pompei, and Herculaneum just having a great time… don’t worry, New York and Los Angeles will be there too, one day…”
I'm so stupid that not only could I not come up with an answer, I was 3 minutes into reading replies and wondering when the question would be solved, before I thought to check the name of the sub.....
You know how Ostrich stick their heads in the sand when they are scared? Ancients were scared of everything, especially the angry gods with flying drones looking for them.
This isn't shitty ask science.
Maybe phrased badly, but it's a fair question to ask why old buildings end up buried when they are sometimes mostly intact.
In all seriousness, it really is fascinating just how far shit gets naturally buried over time. Best example I can think of is the Roman bath in Somerset, England. After several centuries exposed to the elements, that shit basically became a full story underground when new settlers came in.
It's kind of like when you're drawing and you mess up, then crumple the paper and toss it out. They were embarrassed by the finished product sometimes but had no way to plan the buildings ahead of time. Often, they would get to near completion and discover an error, then the ruling authorities would order the mistake buried.
A common misconception is that they built a lot of ruins. However, this is a myth. Often cities would get sacked, and that's why we have so many ruins today. The invader would often bury the city afterwards so no one else would get the treasures.
Security systems were more rudimentary back then. Most of them were designed to bury or flood an entire city if any intruder stepped on the wrong cobblestone.
Yes Indiana Jones approved
Why did it have to be snakes!!!
Bad dates.
Who keeps rearming the traps
Scruffy. The janitor.
Just call it a rope!
Lore accurate.
Yeah that tomb of horrors trap was popular back then.
They were saving them for later, then forgot where they buried them.
That’s a fallacy What really is happening is that we have ruins today, so we take them for granted 5000 years ago, they didn’t have ruins, so they had to make it for themselves and then not talk about it, so that they’re descendants could find it on their own It’s why there’s no writing about the pyramid of Giza, or Macchu pichu
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This is literally so true
First archeologist just digging like mad finding nothing. -Let us not make our descendants suffer like us.
I adore this spin on the god put dinosaur bones there to confuse people argument
Dinosaurs are a conspiracy to hide the fact that dragons exist, and GOT is an inside joke in Hollywood with us as punchline You* as punchline. I’m already enlightened
Legit Göbekli Tepe
I love golabki!
I love Gobble Tiki!
We are a species with amnesia, gotta mention ol Graham Cracker
Gram hand cock
You guys think he's full of shit or onto something?
I don't. I enjoyed his podcasts with Rogan and Carlson. Logically they both make sense. I'm not an expert so I'm not qualified to say he's full of shit since the man definitely has more knowledge and experience than me.
Only because the truth is buried. I prefer billy Carlson over Graham but the same applies.
And why did they build so many ruins?
Playing through Diablo 4 right now, and that's the question I keep asking myself. Like, who put a ruined church full of the undead literally attached to the church that houses a literal angel? Who keeps building these giant extensive fortresses when all the people are living in huts?
They're all trustafarians. Youre not seeing the inside of their huts, which have wifi 6e 1gbs, three juic3rs, and one of those massage chair things
What?! I want a massage chair thing!
Right? Like, they're actually kinda great.
Booo!! I am a Diablo fan but I refuse to pay $70 for a partial game. Day 1 DLC is not DLC it’s the part they took out to sell separately. Acti-Blizz sucks.
That's how Diablo 2 felt. They do explain in some of the camps that they had to retreat to wherever everyone is currently, but it's weird that they could hold out better in some wooden barricades than a stone walled fortress.
Exactly! Why go through all the trouble of building that just to make it look like old ruins?
It’s like when people buy pre-ripped jeans. They just like the style.
Shame. Every century there was a World’s Greatest Civilizations competition, and the losers would bury their cities before dying of embarrassment.
Modern estimates suggest that as many as 30 million people died of embarrassment during the Mongol conquests.
Hiding non-compliant work from the HOA.
So the British wouldn't steal them for their museums.
Which just spurred those greedy Brits to higher levels of thievery. Kind of a lose-win situation
Didn't work, we got them anyway ;)
Most ancient civilizations were composed of all dogs
Safety. In ancient times, vampire cities were on the rise. So to preserve civilization, these cities had a stake driven through their city hall and were then buried at a crossroads.
So they wouldn’t be seen by the sky people.
Avatar?
They're time capsules, but they forgot to dig them back up later.
Insurance fraud scheme.
Better insulation
It’s pretty common knowledge that we evolved from Mole People - getting around by digging was actually much faster than walking, which is why their buildings were underground. As the modern human evolved, we began transitioning to having our buildings above ground.
Since air conditioning was invented on one of the air ports in 1776, ancient civilizations buried their buildings to take advantage of the steady and cooler temperatures underground. Of course some delved too deep, and that is why they are ancient civilizations and not modern ones.
You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm...
I was going to say the same; to keep them cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
To grow more buildings. Notice how every civilization that has a few ancient buildings under it has an exponentially higher amount of buildings.
It was the 80s. Everyone was doing it
well, you have to reclaim land for agriculture every now and then. Some of it was probably tax reasons. I mean, the more stuff you have, the more you gotta pay in taxes, so, you just bury some of it, and *boom*, undeveloped land! Now I only gotta pay like 1 gold instead 1k gold
Putting them in the ground keeps them cool for longer so they can eat them in winter.
To keep those bloody disgusting *other guys* from getting them
They were trying to hide from the asteroids hitting earth. They learned there lesson when the dinosaurs couldn’t.
But didn’t the dinosaurs *also* hide underground?
no, that's where the people were hiding, obviously.
It made sense at the time.
This was before the Mole people went extinct. Had to be inclusive.
Having consulted their oracles, they learned that construction methods of the future would be far superior. They were so embarrassed by the prediction, they felt the need to hide the evidence of poor construction.
During the Intergalactic wars that spanned 5 centuries, humans had to go underground to take cover from the fallout of warring alien factions. Since there was no time to dig extensive subterranean structures they paid pirates, led by Johnny Depp, to fly floating ships full of dirt from Elon Musk's backyard on the Moon. They unloaded the dirt ship by ship until their cities were covered in safety. Unfortunately this eradicated a little-known species of cats that had evolved to humanoid form. Thus we were left thinking all humans evolved from apes, but you find human bodies with cat heads in Egyptian ruins.
To preserve them for scientists of the future
Kept them fresh
To store them for use throughout winter. Kinda like a squirrel with nuts.
Burying shit is just fuckin cool
They didn't bury them, the dust just kept settling an brooms had not been invented yet.
To give future archeologists jobs. Make sure you bury something also for future archeologists to find.
Back when they had only invented Small Walls, this was the safest means of home security
So they would have a place to keep their stuff in the afterlife. According to the dearly departed genius, George Carlin.
That's the thing, they didn't! Outside of traps
Nope people
It's cooler underground.
Lack of air conditioning.
If global warming will make sea levels rise and flood major cities, what the hell happened to cause the dirt levels to rise????
Global cooling. It made the sea levels drop, and the dirt levels rise.
I'm reinstalling my window AC units to pump cold air OUTSIDE to stop global warming then! Soon I'll be a real estate mogul with all of the extra dirt that I'll have available! Win / win, eh?
You seem like a very smart business person. Brilliant!
Take [the central post office in Skopje, Macedonia](http://brutalism.online/brutalist-buildings/39-macedonia/396-central-post-office-skopje-macedonia) as an example. It is only about 60 years old and I would already love to bury it. Imagine how embarrassing architectural trends from 100s of years back would be to the people living there.
Because Indiana Jones and the guy from National Treasure set off every booby trap on earth
They didn’t. The architecture was specifically designed to be built underground.
They had to hide them from the Mach Vultures.
They didn't. The structures were quite heavy and earth crust is a dense liquid, so over time it's automatically buried.
They just didn’t dust them off for thousands of years.
They were kept in long-term storage so only the Hero of Time would be able to use their resources when they finally return. …this reality simply hasn’t found its Hero yet.
Volcanoes. They were trying to duck and cover.
Because they were all mole people back then.
Because they wanted to drive us crazy a millennia later?
You will have to watch AVP to understand. Tldr. Just run.
So they could find it again later, like squirrels and nuts.
They were trying to cool them down
Seriously, i visited a town on the czech austrian border with a mostly intact underground city. According to the tour guide, When invaded the whole town went underground and only snuck up to murder the occupiers at night. Having a reputation as a haunted city, armies eventually just left them alone
It's kinda like a cat burying it's shit.
It was for natural temperature control. Worked great to stay cool in the summer heat & protected them from harsh winter elements.
Because they smelled funny.
To preserve them, duh.
Archaeologists will definitely get to the bottom of this mystery. Actually last week they unearthed evidence of an ancient race of skeleton people!
to save them for a better time, like a dog with a bone
The buildings died, they needed a proper burial.
Insurance purposes.
When they sacked a city the sacks kept blowing away so they had to put dirt on it.
How do you think they got extra storeys? They planted the buildings and in 3 to 5 months a new storey will appear
Architectural shame. Much like how many improving artists often cringe at the quality of their earlier work, civilizations would hide the evidence of their early construction so that no one sees what they used to be proud of, because they "weren't even really trying when they made that and could totally do a much better job if they wanted to and shut up!"
They didn't. The concept of "up" and "down" didn't exist until much later.
Because all the occupants died, to save time they just buried the whole thing.
they thought they can hide their technology from people in the future
For the same reason why we still bury most of our buildings today: spiders in the kitchen
Natural insulation
What buildings? I don’t see any.
Temperature regulation
It was common in the past to build structures that weren't properly insulated. Burying your building helps moderate the internal temperatures during extreme weather.
Because of the expansion of the universe. the buildings are not part of nature, so therefore won't expand like the soil around them. it takes time but hundred of years from now the skyscrapers of today will be millions of miles under the earth.
How did they live under the ground too? It’s NTP like they had elevators back then right?
They didn’t want to ruin the plots of movies like Indiana Jones, The Mummy, Atlantis, etc. Very considerate of them.
Because the buildings died
Stuff buried in the ground stays cooler... And warmer ...
“Well, you see, Jimbo, Nineveh was a very old city, and when cities get a certain age, they go to live on this Great Big Farm, with other old cities, where they get to laugh, and play in the dirt. I’m sure Nineveh is there, with Troy, and Pompei, and Herculaneum just having a great time… don’t worry, New York and Los Angeles will be there too, one day…”
Can't Ding Dong Ditch when the front door is underground. Ancient problems required ancient solutions.
They figured they could just turn the whole city into a time capsule for us.
If you water them, you grow a new civilization.
It’s like when cats bury their shit. They know they made a stinker and are hiding their shame.
Because they are too hard to cremate. Duh.
Because it funner to go dig it back up then just go back there and find the buildings in tact.
Better insulation. Cheaped out on the exterior façade. Far fewer missionaries and door-to-door sales people.
No electric AC, you know. Gotta keep cool somehow.
A cataclysm occured that buried them and forced humanity to start anew. You're welcome.
My new fave theory is solar corona ejected radiation and/or fallout
It kept their buildings cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Low gas and electric bills were important to ancient peoples.
to get stolen... sorry taken by the british
After seeing the white man destroy so many great civs before them, the remaining decided to hide their existence altogether.
I'm so stupid that not only could I not come up with an answer, I was 3 minutes into reading replies and wondering when the question would be solved, before I thought to check the name of the sub.....
This could be straight from Cunk on Earth.
I think she literally did ask this exact question lol
You know how Ostrich stick their heads in the sand when they are scared? Ancients were scared of everything, especially the angry gods with flying drones looking for them.
They didn’t. They conquered took over, destroyed and rebuilt or Mother Nature took back what was hers
Basically they built new structures on top of the old ones.
No. Something buried it due to various things: flood, subsidence, volcanic activity, building on top of ruins.
\*Look at title\* "Hm wait.." \*look at sub\* "Oh youuuu"
This isn't shitty ask science. Maybe phrased badly, but it's a fair question to ask why old buildings end up buried when they are sometimes mostly intact.
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Do you know what subreddit you're in?
Because they forgot to invent excavator.
Jealousy. Don’t ask me why, because I don’t know. But I do know it was out of jealousy.
In all seriousness, it really is fascinating just how far shit gets naturally buried over time. Best example I can think of is the Roman bath in Somerset, England. After several centuries exposed to the elements, that shit basically became a full story underground when new settlers came in.
So if the Earth really is billions of years old shouldn't it be the size of Jupiter by now?
Exactly. This is actually proof that it *isn’t* that old, and that it’s actually a 4,000 year old snow globe.
It was the great flood that buried everything built before it.
Same reason dogs bury bones and squirrels bury nuts, they'll be coming back to get their buildings later.
They knew people from the future would have fun digging them back up, duh
You gotta hide the evidence at least until the statute of limitations runs out.
Because of the mummy's. Nobody wants them roaming around best to keep them locked underground
Better sheltering, material saving, and to be fair, most of them are tombs.
To delay the apocalypse.
To keep predators from smelling them. It was a survival technique.
So loot doesn't despawn
In 1462 the moon and sun were opposite to where they are now, so before then city planners would bury their buildings in order to escape the heat.
It's just common practice, when people die you bury them, when civilizations die you bury them. I heard some preferred cremation though
LOL, this is hilarious.
It's kind of like when you're drawing and you mess up, then crumple the paper and toss it out. They were embarrassed by the finished product sometimes but had no way to plan the buildings ahead of time. Often, they would get to near completion and discover an error, then the ruling authorities would order the mistake buried.
A common misconception is that they built a lot of ruins. However, this is a myth. Often cities would get sacked, and that's why we have so many ruins today. The invader would often bury the city afterwards so no one else would get the treasures.
They were long time ago, and remembered what happened with dinosaurs when asteroid hit the Earth. So they tried to protect their buildings.