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
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
There is some bullshit going on with the "rediscovery" -part... It's like, smack on the mountainside. You can plainly see it from the nearby town. And there are houses within a couple hundred meters of the site in the other direction...
From a reddit post I found:
The complex was lost and forgotten for centuries; then found by accident by a local pilot in 2000.
On a clear February morning in 2000, Nicolino Lombardi, a local historian and pilot, flew his ultralight over nearby Mt. San Nicola. He planned to photograph a recent landslide on the hills south of his village of Pietravairano in the Campania region of Italy. Lombardi had photographed this region in the past and was accustomed to seeing fragments of ancient Samnite, Roman, and medieval ruins mostly obscured by blankets of foliage. However, during this particular flight, the view was different. A recent brushfire had cleared the overgrowth and revealed a long-hidden treasure: the ruins of a theatre/temple complex. In his report following his discovery, Lombardi wrote, “This time, however, the symmetry immediately catches the eye, and everything is clear in a flash: I even seem to see a temple and a theater, with the colonnade still standing and the wide steps full of spectators” (Lombardi p.1).
Thanks for this - it becomes very clear how something like this could be undiscovered, even with others nearby.
Thank you for this!
Excavations began in 2002
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.
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.
Excavations began in 2002
i guess nobody looks outside of planes?
Or satelites don't fucking exist, hikers aren't a thing.
People who look up aren't real.
Bro you're drunk, go home.
Scanning every square meter of land looking for archeological sites is not something people usually do
no but the problem here is rediscovered implies that we just "forgot about it"
like how you rediscover that one pair of socks you had. It wasn't under thirty feet of dirt, it was just in a drawer somewhere.
