How do ancient buildings survive hundreds of years of natural disasters e.g. earthquakes?
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Mainly luck but also a bit of disregard for cost
The ones you see today are the ones that survived, you don’t see the 99.9% that didn’t make it
Old buildings were also built with poorly understood materials so they were over built. Any idiot can build a bridge that stays up, it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stays up on time and on budget. If you’ve got thousands of people and can just build your building out of huge stone blocks it’ll do pretty good because it’s dozens of times stronger than it needs to be and a hundred times more expensive
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