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I wonder how long ago our ancestors forgot about this settlement and it was lost, and how many times it was rediscovered through the ages. I bet Homer knew of or had heard of some ancient sites that were either never memorialized in a poem, or poems never survived to modern times.

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It's honestly staggering to think about how much didn't survive because it was made of wood or clay. And the oral history of our species that is forever lost. Just staggering.

It's even more staggering to think how much didn't survive due to conquerors, demolitions, fires, and intolerance.

I find it more staggering that anything survived (with a gap before being rediscovered). It's just funny to think about the set of circumstances that might lead to things being left, forgotten, and buried, isn't it?

Xenophon already writes about sites that are already old and forgotten by his time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon)

That's very interesting! I imagine a bunch of bored Victorians have already dug everything up and thoroughly wrecked the provenance of everything.

There was 4x the amount of time between Gobekli Tepe and Xenophon as there was between Xenophon and right now

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