How do ancient buildings survive hundreds of years of natural disasters e.g. earthquakes?
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Ideally they are located in a region with few earthquakes and/or have not been subjected to severe earthquakes during their lifespan.
Many ancient buildings did fail to earthquakes, just we mostly don’t see them because their remains were salvaged into new buildings.
There have also been modern day instances of major earthquakes hitting regions with ancient buildings in them for the first time since many of them were built. Many fail.
Of those that survive – these buildings often have a lot of redundancy in them due to the nature of construction techniques and materials when they were built. Eg lots of walls that are also fairly thick. This eats up usable space inside pretty fast but can give these structures a sporting chance of surviving earthquakes.
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