The idea of discovering the underground of a lost ancient city has long captured the human imagination. But why are the abandoned and built environments of these fantasies always buried? The answer is that, primarily, at least in certain parts of the world, such places actually exist beneath our feet. The narration says when archaeologists begin digging under the Roman forum new Primitive space The above video“They discovered an entire world of deep abandoned underground that was not seen for centuries.” The Troy, an even older city, “has been rebuilt ten times, formed ten different layers, all built directly on each other.” Geological excavations are always a journey of time, but even more so.
Each civilization has a reason for this type of physical accretion. “After the large-scale fires in Rome in the first century, most of the city had to be rebuilt. But instead of tiling down the tiled rub, it became faster and easier to simply flatten it and build it on top.” After that, regular disasters continued to require regular pay raises on the streets. This is the process of finally filling in the old structure completely.
In the case of Troy, which began as a village built of mud bricks in 3,000 BC, nine civilizations grew on the same mound (often) and “from the Persians to Alexander the Great, and ultimately to the Romans.” Today, the same continues to happen in certain parts of the world. For example, Shanghai, this is currently sinking at a rate of 1 cm a year.
Growing up around Seattle, I had multiple choice to take part in that “underground tour.” This takes place within the ruins of the town’s landscapes of the late 19th century, preserved just below modern streets. “In 1889, a devastating fire tore apart the newly formed city. Just like Rome, almost everything had to be rebuilt,” the video explains. The aftermath has provided the opportunity to redesign flood-prone cities with streets that outweigh drainage systems. This placed not only the lower floors of the existing building, but also the surrounding sidewalk underground. During elementary school, some people are particularly fascinated by the existence of cities lost under their homeland, and are not particularly surprised. For me and my classmates, nothing was more memorable than the fact that there was still a toilet.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
