Another advanced civilization could thrive while neglecting historical record-keeping

Evidence

Ancient India offers the example of an advanced, sophisticated society that did not think that history mattered, and took no trouble to record it. As serious Indian history-writing began with the coming of Islam, most of what we know about pre-Islamic India is either from fragmentary evidence or outside visitors, not from narrative historiography. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1805

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A civilization can be made to pretend it is younger than it is; Sophisticated civilizations can thrive while deliberately ignoring history