Post buildings that survived a millennium from your part of the world ( hard mode : so no religious structures)
Post buildings that survived a millennium from your part of the world ( hard mode : so no religious structures)
Brody Sullivan
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Eli Johnson
There's a pub here that's been running since at least 953 ad
Carter Gonzalez
do ruins count? this is from the 2nd century AD
Gabriel Hall
Yes , surely
Castles, granaries , aqueducts even man made stone structures such as stone henge count
Justin Gutierrez
These are the ruins of a roman theater in the middle of my city, they're from the 1st century
Gabriel Nguyen
roman aqueduct, I wouldn't say it perfectly survived, but it's still standing atleast
Lincoln Cruz
Hunter Roberts
My apartment building is around 950-1040 years old. The foundation is even older.
Nathan Johnson
You can see the medieval 1100 year old city wall as well, several religious buildings (against the rule I know) and even the old streets.
Ryder Gonzalez
Must be nice living in the oldest house in the town
Blake Cox
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Apparently there was a whole Hindu-Budhist polity here that had been in the area since 110 AD so we have temples, smithys, castles, all sorts of buildings.
Pic related is the ruins of a temple ground from the 6th century AD
David Hill
Burial mound from the Great Aboriginal Kingdom 1100BC
Logan Johnson
It's the oldest apartment building but not the oldest house. There's structures here in town a lot older.
Wyatt Foster
Doxxed
James Martin
post it pajeet
Cameron Nelson
Xavier Sanchez
You are welcome any day. We'll have coffee and cinnamon buns.
Nicholas Williams
You're the guy who works at Visby's touristic agency?
Ian Brooks
From the 5th century. Did you know Ireland had stone buildings before Vikings or Normans came here?
Adam Carter
Yup.
Anthony Collins
> RajendraChola
That's interesting it seems the same guy built this damn as seems so have been involved in your part of the world
Technically his father and his fore fathers built the dam
He just fortified it and created a large land bridge across the river
Nolan Gonzalez
If you can call it survival.
Angel Sanders
9th century fortress
Robert Stewart
Did the apartment come with the job?
Joshua Walker
what do you mean? romans were there though weren't they? I know they made it to britain but no idea about ireland
Tyler Gray
2000 year old celtic house
Carter Carter
you are like a little kid... watch this
William Stewart
Nah, inherited the apartment from my grandfather.
Jayden Gonzalez
*Dam
Liam Ross
wtf? weren't these meant to be built on top of a narrow valley to direct water into city? why is this one built in the open
Oliver Rogers
The Romans took England and Wales but they didn't take Scotland or Ireland. The first towns/cities here were established by the Vikings in the 800's which would probably be the earliest non-religious buildings I can think of here. Before that, they built stone monasteries, churches, etc. but people still lived in huts
William Campbell
You need the keep the incline of the aqueduct from the source to the end steady.
Camden Thomas
engineering not my field, how the fuck could those ancent retards make such a thing? i cant think about it even with modern tools, i would surely make too much inclination and reach ground level before the destination is reached
Leo Butler
Justin Jones
I am still surprised that no Egyptian posted their pyramids yet those things are very old
Tyler Clark
I never get tired of looking this, its beautiful
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John Mitchell
churches are our oldest surviving buildings but we do have some pubs and castles from the 11th.c which is just shy of a millenium
oldest thing still surviving is probably the Roman Thermal Baths in.....Bath.
Noah Martin
I'm not from Mexico, but considering I'm as close as possible to them in the US, and am Mexican by blood (haha), I will post this for them. These are as YOUNG as 400 B.C. when built by the Olmec.
I'm incredibly jealous that I cannot post anything American. Although it's not entirely clear how old those adobe mountain homes really are.
Colton Evans
They had the time, slaves, and incentive. They probably goofed around a lot with originals until they figured it out.
Carson Murphy
that one directs water from the mountains of madrid to Segovia
as long as it has a slight tilt, it works
Brody Powell
Roman construction engineering was so advanced, unmatched in Europe until the 18th century. Trigonometry and practical engineering got them a long.
If you're interested in pre modern engineering masterpieces, check out the Persian Qanat system, underground water wells, thousands of them, each one a dozen miles or longer, irrigating the desert.
Wyatt Perez
even now modern concrete recipe is in some fields worst than the old roman one. i read about an old roman bridge that had some base in really deep water and the concrete by the form that was created it was getting stronger by the time
now day we need to use metal structure to build almost anything and old romans could make buildings that last forever with only rocks and concrete
Gavin Murphy
They'd tap an underground water source in the mountains, then build a tunnel down to the desert, even couple meters they had to build another shaft for maintenance.
Parker James
The tower from my beautiful burg
Dylan Young
They build hundreds of those shafts if they have to bring the water miles trough the desert.
Romans used only pressure statics, no metal reinforcements for tension statics. most modern bridges are built for tension, iron/steel corrodes away, resulting in a limited life time. If you use normal concrete today like Romans did it will hold just as well.
Evan Sanchez
The Qanat will end up in gardens in the middle of the desert.
Nolan Taylor
Porta Nigra, Roman gate, 1800 years old
Kayden Parker
man-made or natural?
Nicholas Miller
in the end the managed to green the desert with just picks, buckets and winches.
Jackson Lee
This well here is running constantly since Roman times. pretty amazing.
Gavin Bennett
here are the foundation walls of an ancient Christian chapel from Budapest, built in the 4th century AD
Evan Flores
please don't laugh
Ayden Rivera
>be hungarian
>have 10cm dick and 10 meter aqueduct
David Taylor
it was used as building material for houses from the time of the Hungarian conquest of the area (late 9th century), as most other things built by the Romans a couple of hundreds of years back. that's why you won't see anything intact from that time period, but is also why every month construction workers find the remains of an ancient Roman villa or a Celtic settlement when they are doing the foundation works for some new building
Jayden Russell
pic related, one of the two amphitheatres of ancient Aquincum, now a part of Budapest, after it was unearthed in the late 1800s
David Parker
I went here, it didn't seem popular with the locals at all. Shame because it's really cool, being on the fringe of the empire and stuff
Chase Morris
that's because not even most of the people living in Budapest know what's in their neighbourhood. I work a couple of minutes by foot from one of the amphitheatres and 3 out of 5 collegues of mine haven't even heard of them. that might change in the future, as the larger one is being refurbished and will be opened for visitors at the end of the year, hopefully this reconstruction will put the place back into public consciousness