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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Huw" data-source="post: 4349947" data-attributes="member: 33093">Ggantija in Malta is claimed to be the oldest free-standing structure in the world. It's over five millenia old and still in pretty good shape. On the other hand, ancient monuments in South East Asia and Indonesia (such as Angkor Wat) a mere millenium old are crumbling away from a mixture of humidity and aggresive plant life.On a slightly different note, I read that many of the inscriptions in Linear A and Linear B only survived because the clay tablets they were written on were stored in a room in a temple which caught fire, thus baking the clay. Other Minoan records have been lost because the (unbaked) clay they were written on has long crumbled to dust.So to preserve your ancient civilisation, stick it in a desert. Hot and above all dry are the best preservatives it seems.</blockquote>