Post something just for the heck of it

[belamyi]

^ *[CZ] buried for over 2,500 years...

 

[belamyi]

I would have posted the other one with the diva trail, but it involved JUB haram presence.

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[Kulindahr]

I know this is the ziggurat of Ur, which is much older, but, hopefully, an image will make more words unnecessary:

Even the bricks that would not be "modern bricks" are not "whole ancient bricks", with more than just "sealant" added.

You said it yourself: sun-baked bricks tend to deteriorate when buried for a long time, which do not need to be eons, and the Chogha Zanbil was buried for over 3,000 years.

It's funny how your post, more or less unawarely, tended to present my original post as some sort of negationism.

Saddam did quite the number on that one. I wonder if he intended to finish it.

Picture from before any excavation:



That's a lot of sand they had to move!

 

[pigface]

Difficult to picture him leading an army of Briton's into battle against marauding hordes.
Unless it was a War of Roses.

 

[belamyi]

Saddam did quite the number on that one. I wonder if he intended to finish it.

But look how sharp and neat it looks now, as if it had just been unearthed and slightly airbrushed, like you said...

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[Alistair]

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

Yes, the furniture (exectp the ceiling lamp) and choice of decoration for those tiles and ceiling is

 

[belamyi]

 

[Kulindahr]

But look how sharp and neat it looks now, as if it had just been unearthed and slightly airbrushed, like you said...

Except Saddam had it rebuilt -- close up those aren't ancient bricks on this one.

 

[purina]

 

[belamyi]

Except Saddam had it rebuilt -- close up those aren't ancient bricks on this one.

What I had been saying all along : good that you finally realized it

 

[purina]

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[Alistair]

 

[belamyi]

THE MORE I GET TO KNOW PEOPLE, THE MORE I REALIZE YAHWEH'S FALLIBILITY IN CHOSING NOAH'S FAMILY TO REPOPULATE THE EARTH.