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arnold001 t1_jbeiarv wrote

Reply to comment by Da_Iron_Lung in Egypt archaeology: Dig unearths smiling mini-sphinx which may represent Claudius by egg_static5

What I cannot understand is how is it possible they are burried?! I mean, if continents move or if there are sudden earthquakes or floods then ok sure, like there are some things that are in the sea. But so so many artefacts seem to just have been burried.

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panckage t1_jbh9gta wrote

People generally live in flood pains (where rivers meet the ocean). These rivers bring in silt and things eventually get buried over long periods of time. Just like lakes eventually fill up with silt and become land again.

In the end it is just high parts of the Earth (eg mountains) eroding and the silt piles up in the lower places... Making high places lower and lower places higher

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