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Listed houses in pictures of the past:
Piranesi 1749.
Archaeological site in Ephesus. Of course, these are all cultural layers …
Promotional video:
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yuri_shap2015: Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Kremlin, around which along the Volga there was a fortress wall (like Kitaygorodskaya in Moscow). So - the height of this place above the level of the Volga, about 30 meters. ALL the old churches (and at the beginning of the 18th century, there were more than 50 behind this wall !!! (On an old engraving, this place is simply dotted with churches), now there are literally a few left, and in everything you need to go down the stairs DOWN 2- 4 meters) (and if we take into account that they were built on a hill and there was a basement-foundation, then from the base, and that will be 6-8 meters. And so on the entire area of this part of the city. From the wall with a length of hundreds of meters - almost nothing is left in 19th century, as well as from dozens of churches !!! The question is, how did the fall asleep, the destruction of walls and churches occur, and WHEN it happened. The Volga flood with a rise of water by 30-40 meters,in the history of Yaroslavl has never been recorded! (There are no such documents). History says that the walls were destroyed either by Ivan the Terrible, or by the Fire in the time of Catherine (but how did the stone buildings burn down and covered the floor of the city with clay from the fire ??), or the ubiquitous Mongol-Tatars … The same story with the Kazan Kremlin ….
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haazzaar: in every ancient western-style city, a town hall, a city government body, was built in the center. The aboveground part was mainly two stories, but the underground part was much more stories down. In one city that was owned by Lithuanians, then Poles, then Russians, now it is Ukraine, four floors have been excavated in such a town hall, despite the fact that this is not the end. Since it is clearly visible that the steps lead even lower. To date, the excavation has been stopped due to lack of funds. It is noteworthy that all the rooms of these four floors with arched ceilings were covered with a mixture of black soil, clay and sand. How did this mixture get there?
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artimage_su: Excavations along the walls in the Louvre:
When zooming in, you can see that the walls have been dug up to 2-3 meters. Why do they do this? Foundation restoration or is this how the building should look without external soil?
Walls dug around the perimeter.
More about the Louvre: "Louvre. An underground museum of the antediluvian city?" and The Silent Dungeons of the Louvre.
Historical collapse of other cities from above (it turns out that Google maps for some browsers have a 3D view function):
Pompeii.
Rome. (1860-1881). See that the Colosseum is buried on the left along the perimeter?
Karnak, Egypt, 1890 It is clear that the sphinxes on the left were in the ground.
An ancient Assyrian statue, discovered in 1929, is currently housed in the Chicago Museum.
Athena, late 19th century
And after the start of excavations. Dumps of soil are visible, which were simply thrown down.
Roman Forum, 1857 The level of the ground is visible, to which the base of the stele has skidded.
The level of the modern ground is visible on the left.
The idols of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) covered with clay and soil. Excavations by T. Hierdahl.
A ship under 14 m of clay As an example of the processes of possible processes of the introduction of structures by soil.
Map of river channel changes Misissippi.
Tomsk. From bottom to top: rubble stone on solution is the foundation. Then - carved blocks of limestone and above the brickwork.
During the excavation, the author of the photograph was surprised that such beautiful carved slabs were hidden underground. It turned out that 120 years ago it was the ground base of the tower. That is, the tower had a porch, everything was as it should be, but over the decades a “cultural layer” has grown around, hiding this beauty. Ideally, I should film a meter of soil around the tower in some area - for beauty and protection of limestone from the ground. But this is a huge amount of work.
Speech here about this former water tower:
Chekotov's Market fell into a mysterious underground city, Vesti-Irkutsk.
Mr. Kasimov specifically sprinkled:
Continued: Part 4