Abstract: The recovery of basin burial history is a vital content in the process of resource evaluation of petroleum basins; therefore the researchers of basin pay attention to it widely. The method of recovering the burial history has two: direct method and inversion method. Direct method is the simulation process of burying in all ages, such as deposition rate method in the overpressure technology; Inversion method is recovering the burial history From now on to the ancient, such as back-stripping technology. Both the direct method and inversion method are the principle of sedimentary compaction and porosity change.