How do ancient buildings survive hundreds of years of natural disasters e.g. earthquakes?
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When you travel around the world off the beaten tourist track to hinterlands where there used to be great cities, [and you see they were abandoned after earthquakes](https://imgur.com/i3gHSbN), one city after another after another, you realize just how destructive earthquakes were.
It was only in cities which rebuilt, and which repaired the most important buildings after earthquakes that we see the remnants of buildings which “survived”. But like others here have said, those are the vast *minority* of cases.
When you travel around the world off the beaten tourist track to hinterlands where there used to be great cities, [and you see they were abandoned after earthquakes](https://imgur.com/i3gHSbN), one city after another after another, you realize just how destructive earthquakes were.
It was only in cities which rebuilt, and which repaired the most important buildings after earthquakes that we see the remnants of buildings which “survived”. But like others here have said, those are the vast *minority* of cases.
When you travel around the world off the beaten tourist track to hinterlands where there used to be great cities, [and you see they were abandoned after earthquakes](https://imgur.com/i3gHSbN), one city after another after another, you realize just how destructive earthquakes were.
It was only in cities which rebuilt, and which repaired the most important buildings after earthquakes that we see the remnants of buildings which “survived”. But like others here have said, those are the vast *minority* of cases.
Take the look at the walls the Inca built. They’re crazy. Every block is unique and fits only where it goes. When an earthquake comes through, if the wall doesn’t go over sideways, any jostled blocks fall right back into the only spots they fit.
Take the look at the walls the Inca built. They’re crazy. Every block is unique and fits only where it goes. When an earthquake comes through, if the wall doesn’t go over sideways, any jostled blocks fall right back into the only spots they fit.
Take the look at the walls the Inca built. They’re crazy. Every block is unique and fits only where it goes. When an earthquake comes through, if the wall doesn’t go over sideways, any jostled blocks fall right back into the only spots they fit.
I saw a documentary on ancient Chinese buildings that’s been around since like the tang dynasty. They had this design for the critical joints of the buildings infrastructure pretty much. So as earthquakes would occur. These buildings would simply just shift slightly enough where it doesn’t cause any stress or damage to the integrity of the buildings.
I saw a documentary on ancient Chinese buildings that’s been around since like the tang dynasty. They had this design for the critical joints of the buildings infrastructure pretty much. So as earthquakes would occur. These buildings would simply just shift slightly enough where it doesn’t cause any stress or damage to the integrity of the buildings.
I saw a documentary on ancient Chinese buildings that’s been around since like the tang dynasty. They had this design for the critical joints of the buildings infrastructure pretty much. So as earthquakes would occur. These buildings would simply just shift slightly enough where it doesn’t cause any stress or damage to the integrity of the buildings.
They don’t. The recent earthquakes in turkey destroyed or heavily damaged a lot of historical buildings. An earthquake also heavily the theodosian walls in (then) constantinople, and they had to be repaired emergently before Atilla the hun arrived
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