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The theater/temple of San Nicola near Caserta, Italy, was rediscovered by chance in 2000 by a paraglider. It's 2100 years old and hosts a theater and a temple on the same hill 520 high (i0.wp.com)

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[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I don't get it. Was the houses in the background built after it was rediscovered, or were people just blind?

Was it burried? How? Its on the top of a hill.

Here is another angle with even more buildings and fields with a clear line of sight.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm imagining it looked something like the Teotihuacan pyramid before it was excavated: looks like a mountain.

Teotihuacan pyramid before and after excavation

Edit: Uploaded higher-res photo.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that is one hella suspicious mountain

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, they are all over. There's enough of them that the ancient aliens people always end up talking about them. Famous one in Eastern Europe. The difference is that those have strata layers, not blocks of stone

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

do you mean buried pyramids or mountains that look like they contain pyramids but are just mountains?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Mountains that look like pyramids are pretty common. Normally they aren't quite that straight, but it does happen. AFAIK we scan them these days to see if anything is there before bothering to dig

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

This site, "the ancient theater archive" says the hangglider guy was used to seeing glimpses of ruins covered by foliage, but there had been a recent brush fire that made it more obvious.