In the 1920s, workers in the city of Melbourne began to lay the foundations for the future Capitol Theater and found a fence buried 1 meter in clay. The fence boards stood quite firmly, vertically, and at the base of the fence there was a wooden sidewalk.
And where it came from is a real mystery. After all, the fence was under the demolished building, which was built in 1865. But we know from history that there could be no fence there. Moreover, the classic, western, low, clearly define the boundaries of private ownership.
The city of Melbourne itself was founded only in 1835, when the first European settlers arrived in this area.
The find was safely forgotten. They remembered about her almost a hundred years later, when in 2017 they found a whole block of house foundations in clay. It turns out that the first settlers built houses in 1835, then they were abandoned and new houses were put in their place after 30 years, one of which was demolished during the construction of the theater when a fence was found.
There was an even stranger find, during the reconstruction of an intersection in Melbourne, the remains of two oxen and a cart they were pulling were found. Really, the owner of the oxen decided to bury a cart next to the oxen in Egypt, so that they had something to carry there.
The official history of buried foundations provided an answer. However, the historians' version is similar to adjusting the solution of the problem to the answer. The first settlers built houses in lowlands, swampy places, the streets turned into impassable swamps, and the city administration in 1853 passed a law that the owners would bury their houses, thereby raising the level of the streets.
But why did not a person worry about his property before falling asleep at home? Why didn't I remove the fence, after raising the ground, I would put it in place. Or a brick fireplace covered up could also be disassembled and assembled in a new house. Moreover, they also buried the dishes.
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And such waste is taking place on virtually unsettled lands. How much effort and time should be spent to fill a site per meter with clay, and where was the soil taken for backfilling? Wasn't it easier to move to a higher part of the city. Clay is difficult to dig and stupid - water may well go on top.
This answer of historians contradicts the history of the city. From it we know that Melbourne was originally built according to the plan of 1837. In the 1850s, many famous city buildings were built, the parliament building, the treasury building, the university. The city developed rapidly due to the gold rush. The central city blocks were well planned, boulevards were laid.
There are two official histories of the city. Settlers came to the new lands, adopted a wonderful clear plan for the city's development, but this harmonious concept does not fit the fact that the city was built on a swampy area and the administration forced people to bury their houses. Details about the swamp appeared only in 2017, when houses were excavated, and then a strange document surfaced. Or believe in the version where everything was built according to the plan or the version where houses were built anywhere in the swamps.
The photo shows how thoroughly Melbourne was built. Although in all these huge buildings, theaters, etc. would be necessary when if the city had a multimillion population. What did the colonists build such cities from? You need brick factories, coal, or gas, you can't make a brick with firewood.
We can assume that there is a third version, because we have a very interesting date, the date of fires in America and the date of photographs of empty cities, 1850.
These cities have already been. For it is absolutely unrealistic to build such masterpieces of architecture "on hands" and on horse-drawn traction.