‘Old Photos In Real Life’: 30 Pics That Show How Much Time Affects Everything (New Pics)

Exactly- may he be blessed!

Agreed!

Wtf are you talking about? “Real celebrities?” Do you know what a celebrity is? A famous person. He is not a famous person in any way. The problem seems to be you confounding fame with good virtue. Maybe you meant to say “People like him are the real heroes.”

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What a cheesy thing to say

It'd be quite mumbly seeing as they're holding up the bridge with their teeth

I’m just glad they survived the war pretty much intact.

Just imagine the history & stories they could tell if they could talk.

... I'd probably have a heart attack

RAWR!!!

Looks to me like they are not the original statues...

They can talk but, their mouths are full.

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If they could talk they would, like the lions they are, roar. What are you hoping to glean from that?

To all, Tom

No it was the Pandemic

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To you.

Brilliant!

Thank you Sian. I have always problems with this word. I‘m getting better though… I hope. This is not my native language, so, that‘s my excuse.

True, Whoda. But it was equally daunting when it was elevated.

Or if some tiles fall from the ceiling...

Penice! 😁

HAH yes

It's places like this one that we hope will never change.

Perhaps a response to increased CO2. I've seen similar anecdotal type shots but no proper research that I know of.

With time, the dirt accumulates over the ruins, and often the existence of the building itself is forgotten. People did not know that this was a theater, for them they were just old stones already conveniently cut that could be reused for new buildings, or still standing ancient walls to include in a new construction. Even if the building is known but is unused, it was common to consider it just an abandoned rubble and build on top of it to save on costs, reusing the old foundations and the old rooms as cellars. The whole concept of architectural preservation of building only dates back to the late 1700s and 1800s. Whole ancient roman buildings in Rome have been dismantled in the Renaissance to build Papal palaces or to serve as foundations to new public buildings.

Quite easily. The foundations for buildings are not that deep, so they might not find anything to say there is something there. These things are not marked on a map. This is why we are still finding Roman mosiacs in fields.

I mean by that logic we would have run out of land to build on a long time ago. Sometimes u just gotta build on top

A bit like Herculaneum in the bay of Naples, most of it is under the town, but they can't excavate any more because of how many buildings are on top. We'll worth a visit to though, and better preserved artifacts than Pompeii, and less tourists.

For most of history, few people saw value in old unused dilapidated buildings and saw them a a source to scavenge materials or as a space for a new place within or on top. The colosseum was scavenged for stone and “drilled” out to find and scavenge lead within used to secure the stone. The Casina dell’Aquila building was built atop Pompeii in the 1700s and still stands. Even Pompeii was built over previous settlements. The pyramids were stripped of their stone and buried fortunes. More recently, buildings get changed or destroyed all the time to make room for newer ones and their components are stripped to be used and recycled. Sometimes because they are obsolete, damaged, or unsafe, other times because of land value. Look at New York. Nothing new.

well... wouldn't you build on top of a 2000`s building? Back then, it was like that. Also, in Spain much of the stone from the arabs, romans, etc was used to build churches or other buildings.

Oh, that's what it was... I was having trouble understanding the first pic. It's amazing what people are willing to erase in the name of development.

Property developers ._.

We do it all the time. All cities are on top of ancient cities. That is why so many have an underground. It wasn't built underground. With flooding, liquefaction and earth quakes the ancient gets berried and forgotten, new people move in and build on top with what they find already there.

I’ve seen this in person. It actually went missing and was only rediscovered relatively recently. Being forgotten helped it survive, ironically.

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1. Approach city council with proposal 2. Have a construction crew begin work at the job site. Upon approval of course 3. I struct crew to build the approved structure at the location specified in the permits. 4. Finish

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To actually make it look good again. I'm all for it. It's only stone.