cladking Wrote:
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> Most primitive building techniques are highly
> susceptible to earthquake damage and the resulting
> fires. Significant earthquakes tended to demolish
> cities before quite recent times.
>


Well, that explains why none of the Old Kingdom tombs survived.

They weren't "primitive".

Just for the record, I think that word is incredibly condescending and ethnocentric. What cultures of the past did was different... not inferior.

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.