Did the ancient world look anywhere near as spectacular as described

>>1839135
I believe it was mostly black & white prior to 1939.

>>1839141


Lol.

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>>1839135
Probably looked quite a bit more impressive than usually depicted... ie. dilapidated. These things probably had a lot of facades on them that did not stand the test of time, and were being constantly maintained by a virtual army of artisans, and thus very well may have had positively gleaming polished finishes that there'd similarly be no evidence of.

If there's some great dark age, people will probably be depicting our skyscrapers without any windows in their own historical recreations (or with lots of broken ones), interspersed with broken and unpainted roads and surrounded by wasteland.

Granted, for LA, it'd be fairly accurate.

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>>1839183
more

>>1839255
How the fuck would the tower of Babel be able to sustain it's weight if it is pure mud bricks and shit

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>>1839265
As the story goes, it apparently didn't.

Not that you can't build some crazy huge shit, with "mud bricks" and a little ingenuity.

One does have to remember that the well fed among the ancients were not any less intelligent than we are, they simply had a smaller backlog of information to work with. Indeed, if anything, they were smarter, as with less readily available reference, they had to keep more information in their heads.

>>1839265
>Believing in Jewish fairy tales

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>>1839135
>>1839255
What do you mean 'described by text'? Which text?

Those images aren't accurate anyway.

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>>1839484

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>>1839487

>>1839454
Well, there are several other sources that refer to Etemenanki, the tallest ziggurat in Babylon dedicated to Marduk, which Herodotus writes about. Hebrew had no word for ziggurat, so those trying to force Biblical historicity tend to point to it.

It was about 300ft tall, according to Herodotus, and nearly as wide. While the story itself is parable, that's probably the structure that inspired the story.

Pre flood civilizations were probably immaculate.

>>1839265
> thinks tower of babel is real and not allegory utilizing a ziggurat

>>1839495
Does it Inscription actually say Tower of abbbel?

Also, does this happen to be the Zigguerette of Ur or diffeerent one

>>1840380
It's the Etemenanki ziggurat, commonly believed to be the tower that inspired the story.

>>1839135
Fuck no.
The unearthing of Troy was a massive disappointment.