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ZDTreefur t1_jdstzn6 wrote

How are we still finding significant and large things like this?

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paulyester t1_jdsx2mf wrote

Everything slowly gets covered by sand and soil. Now we have new technology such as LiDAR aerial imagery to mass scan giant tracks of land from a plane. There have been many discoveries made by people simply zooming into google earth and noticing a building footprint lol.

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4chams t1_jdt3eg7 wrote

Majority of ancient Egypt is covered by sand. The government gets to decide who can and cannot dig and where.

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[deleted] t1_jdudo80 wrote

This, imagine what we will find if they let archaeologists dig near the sphinx and the great pyramid. I went to hercolaneum years ago and they have mapped an entire city with lidar but they cannot dig it up because of the houses built on top of it.

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cargo_run_rust OP t1_jdt68cq wrote

There is recent funding to excavate more places, like it was not available before.

Egypt is full of mystery and history, and as long as the projects are well funded new discoveries will be happening.

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brookepride t1_jdu34qw wrote

Egypt is 5000+ years old. We lose where stuff used to be hundreds of years ago. Plus they were trying to hide stuff from grave robbers sometimes

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vee_lan_cleef t1_jdttxfl wrote

Read about Saqqara or watch the recent documentary about it if you want to see some of the most recent large discoveries. It is likely there are many more significant tombs that have yet to be discovered.

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hungrypuca t1_jduf6yj wrote

What if we found everything decades ago but they are on a timer to release so everyone stays intrigued.

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Chrisjamesmc t1_jdutxdm wrote

It’s amazing isn’t it? And it’s not just small things. Every so often you hear about colossal statues getting dug up in Cairo suburbs or from under riverbeds.

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