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- May be the remnants of a ritual site used by the previous inhabitants of the Island. The structure bears a similarity to architecture used in ancient Greek and Roman temples.
- The DHARMA Initiative transported some people to the past in an experiment and those people began a civilization on the Island.
- The Island is actually the Garden of Eden. This is why the Island hides itself, and why so many people are interested in finding it. The ruins are remnants of other civilizations who found it previously. Also, this makes the discovery of the Adam and Eve bodies very important, and shows what the creators meant when they said these skeletons would prove they knew what they were doing all along. The smoke monster can also be explained as the guardian angel of the Garden, judging to see who is worthy to remain.
- May not be real ruins at all, but rather fakes planted there by the DHARMA Initiative.
- The Egyptians were the Island's original inhabitants and built the ruins, temple, and four toed statue. They arrived via the black rock.
- The Island is in a perpetual loop. allowing for people to enter and exit as they please, yet not without consequences.
- The Hostiles, the native people of the Island, lived in the ruins (before it became ruins). Alpert, one of the hostilies, is known to not age, so the hostilies may all be about a few hundreds years old.
- These are the remnants of the structure seen in This Place Is Death.