Why did all those ancient civilizations cover their towns up with dirt and sand?

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Were they trying to hide something? And how did they move so much dirt and sand without any heavy machinery?
 
Oddly enough, my students want to know the answer to that too. If you find out, let me know...
 
Believe it or not the wind and elements did it through time.
I lived in an area that went through a a real dry spell for 4 years . The wind and sand / dirt storms would either cover up a hole in the ground or un cover it in a day or two.
I use to joke that If I died on that land I could just put a bed in a 6 foot hole and the wind and sand would bury me .
 
That is so funny! I'd never thought of ancient civilizations taking the time to bury their towns after they were abandoned.

No - they just filled in with wind-blown dirt.

HOWEVER.... Around the very first pyramid in Egypt was a very strange little town full of buildings which were solid (not hollow inside). They were just phony buildings for the Pharaoh to look at when he was dead (I guess!). But after they were built they were then buried by the workers. That is just so odd. Apparently the belief of the Egyptians was that the dead Pharaoh could still see his phony town even if it was buried - and nobody else got to look at it.

So there is at least one town which was buried by the builders.
 
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