eli5 why ancient historical buildings haven’t been kept up? Why are buildings like the Parthenon and the Colosseum in such disrepair? Greece and Rome/Italy have existed the entire time?

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eli5 why ancient historical buildings haven’t been kept up? Why are buildings like the Parthenon and the Colosseum in such disrepair? Greece and Rome/Italy have existed the entire time?

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Answer 1

I used to always think that it would be better to not restore it because if we did, it would lose that ancient feeling. I saw it as if we repaired an old painting; it’d have been touched by the modern world instead of being left alone as a time capsule from the past.