50 Of The Most Fascinating Creations Of Archaeology, Art And Architecture That Continue To Inspire Us Centuries Later

Ironically enough such construction made people richer. It simple created work places for craftsmen for more than century

Better the money be spent on that than on wars, no? The wealthy always had plenty of sins to atone for, after all.

Even the poorest could go in and share the beauty.

People always seem to end-up in a hierarchy of wealth unfortunately. I think only Denmark has a narrow band of poorest and richest? Good for them. The theory is if you tax the richest too much they'll go elsewhere. But what if the world had the same tax regime....??

Looking over the history, the abbey was fully funded by Norman noblemen just after the Norman Conquest. These nobles were already rich prior to the invasion.

All of them

Why is this Christian site the only place that makes you wonder that? It's simply a bigoted template from centuries of anti-clericalism that doesn't actually make any economic sense. (Its from agricultural 11th-12th century England; food production isn't going to be limited by people working at a stone quarry.) Life expectancy (at least after infancy) was INCREDIBLY higher in 11th century England than it was in 1910 England, when life expectancy was a miserable 30 years. And do you know why? Because instead of being constrained by a high death rate, population growth was restrained by socio-religious practices (communal homes, 190 sex-free religious feasts per year, large celibate class). Although in fact-checking my recollection, I was surprised to see that in the 12th century, the population did actually double... it was a little before the proliferation of so... many... holidays. [holiday = holy day]

God will compensate them any day now.

You have a valid point, However: Think instead of all the people who earned a pretty good living building this thing.

All of them.

Nobody, Even the poor had benefits of it. To be able to reach the roof the room was filled with sand (the poorest people carried this sand). Every time a load of sand (8stones, 55kg ) was delivered a small coin was covered. The sand and money were put in sacks when they emptied the hall. If you carried the sack(s) out of town, you could search for the coins.

The answer would surprise you on how small it is compared to the c**p we see happening today

The same number that lived poor to put man on the moon, the same number that still live poor to fund díck shaped rockets to Mars or whatever.

All of them, Katie

Millions as always

or how many lost their lives building it...

Namaste!

Ikr and this was done with no Morden tools yet the carving of so many temples in india are so precise and ornâtes. The best thing I loved during my stay there is that the temples always gave back to the people and poor living there.

There was a study, that if 1 of the props on a turbine was painted black, birds could see it. It supposedly broke up the image, making the hazard clear. I wish this was being utilized!

Don't drag me into this

Went to Prague with my cousin and his family. He managed to get a room that had damn near this exact view of the clock out of our hotel window. I owe him a debt I doubt I can repay

Who's thinking that? I think it's the opposite

It's the whole "world is flat" and "sun revolves around the earth". Oh, and thunder is "gods fighting" and "a witch made the cow go dry".

Everybody who knew about it died :(

It's thought to have been hidden on purpose so invaders wouldn't find their hiding place.

Apparently it was in use into the 20th century, possibly until Christians were expelled from Turkiy in a population exchange with Greece, and it was "rediscovered" in 1963. The beginnings of construction may have been the digging of caves in 8th-7th century BC. Derinkuyu underground city - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city

Because ancient peoples were "stupid, and uneducated". If you watch the History channel especially you can see things like this. They speak of Europeans and their discoveries like some grand design... but Indigenous peoples, Eastern Tribes, Asia, Africa... basically ANY PLACE ELSE... it's just "pure dumb luck" or barbarism, or rudimentary... Many archeologists would literally DIG THROUGH discoveries, destroying history, because they had prefabricated ideas of ancient societies and were "looking for something" and by the time they discovered they had dug through layer upon layer of city structure it was "OPE oh well!" That's how... people died, they fled during religious wars... and nobody thought to look around for signs of intelligence from "savages and brutes".