User blog comment:Hawkinz340/Nineteen Kings and Alabasta Poneglyphs/@comment-4899461-20130927143417

Nice blog! Sorry if this comment is too long, but I didn't want to make a new one and steal your thunder.

I think it's as you said and their are really two main possibilities: 1) Alabasta was sympathetic in some way to the Ancient Kingdom and wanted to preserve the Poneglyph and hide it from the World government. or 2) Alabasta wanted to hide the Poneglyph for the World Government, to prevent anyone from learning about the Void Century.

I actually think we can get a tentative answer to this question, if we see another Poneglyph in this arc (and I'd be surprised if we didn't see one). With the exception of Alabasta and Ohara, the only other two Poneglyphs we've seen (Skypeia and Fishman Island) were in places the WG doesn't care about and in the possession of non-human cultures. (It's quite possible that these Non-Human cultures actually made up the Ancient Kingdom, which has some interesting implications in regard to World Nobles and slavery.) As the first island with strong ties to the WG and the likeliness of finding a Poneglyph, Dressrosa can say volumes about the connection between Poneglyphs and the WG.

If the Poneglyph is in possession of the Doflamingo Family (and/or on Dressrosa), then the Poneglyphs are hidden by the World Government, and Alabasta is no different from the other 19 Kingdoms.

However, if the Poneglyph is in possession of the Dwarves (and/or on Green Bit), then the Poneglyphs are hidden from the World Government, and Alabasta is quite different from the other 19 Kingdoms.

The answer to this question may also have important ties to the nature of Justice in One Piece, because what happened to the information left by the war-losing Ancient Kingdom is probably the earliest example of the World Government's sense of purpose.