What’s Ruining Our Ruins?

Join us at Something Worth Knowing, a Complexly benefit and live show at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in the center of Los Angeles on September 16, 2026. To get your ticket go to https://complexly.info/SWK26-23 From the Maijishan Grottoes to the frescoes of St. Paul in Ephesus to Chaco Canyon to Megiddo to Angkor Wat, our UNESCO World Heritage Sites are being destroyed by one thing: microbes. But we can still preserve our heritage. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Shaji John, Timos Gies, Jon Coffman, Anita, Anne Herrington, Ashley Moquin, yeyette, David Johnston, Cye Stoner, Jp Lynch, Bethany Matthews, Chris Curry, J.V. Rosenbalm, Blood Doctor Kelly, Toyas Dhake, Reed Spilmann, Eric Jensen, Garrett Galloway, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Chris Mackey, Matt Curls, Friso, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, Piya Shedden, Kevin Knupp, Joseph Ruf, Jacob Puthoff, Kevin Bealer, Steve Gums, Alex Hackman ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scishow.bsky.social #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vScRXxTCa0EioVQiKAihQ5P7C6RNCjASEcSSpdGn_ivg6R2LuwqCM3kxFIZkO-V7BT95BOXU_4B5G7M/pub