I heard this point made a while back about how design choices and/or technical limitations led to different parts of ancient cultures being preserved: - Some c

I heard this point made a while back about how design choices and/or technical limitations led to different parts of ancient cultures being preserved: - Some civilizations wrote on clay but built with wood/straw. We know a lot about their writing but almost nothing about their structures. - Some civilizations wrote on papyrus but built with stone. We know a lot about their structures but not a lot about their writing (unless it was written on a building). The ancient Egyptians are the classic example here.