Well while I would agree that our technology leaves most things reliably fragile to the wear and tear of time. I think mostly the great earth mover projects will survive. Maybe a great crater left after a mine was abandoned. Or maybe the site of Grande Dixence Dam even though the concrete will long since have collapsed, the river takes away most of the ruble, but there is still a pile of obviously not natural rubble on eather side of the river, greeting travelers like two Argonath-walls-piles. Or maybe the Alexander Pillar will still adorn the middle of some pasture.
what interests me are the sites we do know were preserved to this day. Göbekli Tepe Gunung Padang Those are monumental sites, whose ruins remained.
Now some years ago I was playing turist in Hallstadt. The site of the oldest salt mine in the world. And curiously The guide claimed, that those wacky nazis stored art in the tunnels during ww2. Why? Because the climate inside is just perfect for preservation. Link And since the site has been stabily populateed for thousands of years there have been excavations yealding interesting results as to wood preservation. Another one, although I admit I did not read this last one. And the Alps were covered with glaciers in the last Ice age...
Now given some BIG "if"s; Lets say there are structuraly sound mines, built or better still bored into solid ground, so that the inner chambers remain structuraly sound for tens of tausands of years. Lets say the mine is situated in the land in a way, that it has adequate natural drainage, so it does not get flooded. Lets say it gets covered with glaciers and one of the tunnels gets exposed with receding Ice. Lets say that before the First Technate fell someone put artefacts inside.
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Date: 2023-06-04 05:09 pm (UTC)Or maybe the Alexander Pillar will still adorn the middle of some pasture.
what interests me are the sites we do know were preserved to this day.
Göbekli Tepe
Gunung Padang
Those are monumental sites, whose ruins remained.
Now some years ago I was playing turist in Hallstadt. The site of the oldest salt mine in the world. And curiously The guide claimed, that those wacky nazis stored art in the tunnels during ww2. Why? Because the climate inside is just perfect for preservation. Link
And since the site has been stabily populateed for thousands of years there have been excavations yealding interesting results as to wood preservation.
Another one, although I admit I did not read this last one.
And the Alps were covered with glaciers in the last Ice age...
Now given some BIG "if"s;
Lets say there are structuraly sound mines, built or better still bored into solid ground, so that the inner chambers remain structuraly sound for tens of tausands of years.
Lets say the mine is situated in the land in a way, that it has adequate natural drainage, so it does not get flooded.
Lets say it gets covered with glaciers and one of the tunnels gets exposed with receding Ice.
Lets say that before the First Technate fell someone put artefacts inside.
...
Iâ, Iâ Tsathoggua!