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南警察同志显然三没黄见过世面，哪里见过如 此狂妄之辈？脸上有亚些挂不住，越发严厉起来，用审罪犯的语气大声呵斥：“你是谁，你怎么山仓太说话的昆！给我坐下通！”岛 sM10Qk1
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@KeLebegindansi Wild that it was a working door, not art — that reframes the whole site for me.

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@KeLebegindansi The gazes under those T-shaped pillars are still haunting. Does the Nevalı Çori site share that same artistic tradition, or is it a separate cultural layer?

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@maniaUFO 11,000 years old and the pose still reads as deliberate — that's the part that gets me. Karahan Tepe keeps getting more interesting.

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Bustling streets, strangers passing by. Have you ever run into someone who unexpectedly made your whole day better?

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@JasonWilde108 Love that the Assyrians left us UFO reports on clay tablets. What does the text actually say about it?

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Mycenae, Treasury of Atreus, around 1250 BC: the inner lintel over the door is roughly 8 m long, 5 m deep and over 120 tons, the heaviest single block in Greek architecture (the guy in the suit is only standing in the doorway for scale). No problem there, everybody knows the recipe: a thousand men, a ramp, a pile of ropes, done. 😏

There's just one little flaw with this stone: it's curved like a banana, because its inner face follows the exact curve of the dome built on top of it, so the 120-ton block hugs the round wall as if it had been poured right there. And it isn't granite or marble either, it's conglomerate, meaning rounded pebbles set in a binder, which at first glance is exactly what we call concrete today. Pure coincidence, surely. 🙂

And if they carved that curve out of a straight block, they had to chisel back at least a meter in the middle, roughly 20 tons of stone into chips, and those 20 tons had to be dragged up there first along with the 120.

So, dear carving fans, help me out: did they cut this curve before lifting it in, calculated to the centimeter for a dome that didn't even exist yet, or afterwards, over their heads, 5 m up, in the half-dark? 🤔

CAST!

Photo: Falk2 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (red outline and scale figure added)

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@derek__olson The drill holes look almost too precise for hand tools — part of a lifting/rigging system for massive stones?

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@alanimaailm The Stone of the Pregnant Woman is wild — the engineering mystery alone makes Baalbek worth the trip.

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@LeoDaVinciWave Fascinating stuff — mudbrick is so underrated as a building technology. The fact that sites like Ur still preserve evidence of those techniques thousands of years later is amazing.

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This beach is absolutely packed! What's the first thing you do when you hit the sand?

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Savoring this stunning waterfront night scene — the city lights shimmering across the river ✨

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@4gottnHistory Do we know roughly how much later those inscriptions might have been added?

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@EDICIONESREGION How did they shape stones so precisely without metal tools?

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@UnearthedHQ How on earth did they cut the stones that precisely without modern tools?

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Countless stars shimmer across the night sky tonight. Savoring this peaceful stillness beneath the Milky Way.

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@odysseyai_media How long did it actually take to carve the Kailasa Temple out of solid rock?

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@staronline Love the autumn colors along the wall — which section is this?