How do ancient buildings survive hundreds of years of natural disasters e.g. earthquakes?

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How do ancient buildings survive hundreds of years of natural disasters e.g. earthquakes?

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You build lots of buildings. The ones that are destroyed by earthquakes and whatnot disappear; and all that’s left are ones in places not hit by disasters. Repeat, and you get thousands of structures out of millions built that survived to modern day — sort of real estate survival of the fittest.

The buildings aren’t the result of special engineering so much as they were lucky enough to be placed where they are so they didn’t get destroyed.

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