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At this point, a woman came out of a car and stood there and watched me with my tripod and camera bags and photographer's vest. So I put on a show for her, and started shooting details (which I'd have done anyway). She watched me long enough to make me nervous. Made me ruin several photos. Pah. Uncreative garbage!
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| Posted by Armchair Traveller |
4/21/2005 6:54 AM | remove |
Does anyone know why ancient ruins seem to age so much more gracefully? Is it that they were produced from natural materials, rather than man made?
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
4/21/2005 1:40 PM | remove |
It's a good question. I'll ask my brother (he's an architect). Natural materials generally degrade faster than man-made ones.
Most ancient ruins I've seen were made of particularly hard stone (e.g. marble). Buildings made of plinths, adobes and bricks don't last very long. Roman ruins are relatively recent (by Greek standards, Roman ruins are still seen as a sort of newfangled thing :-) ), which is why some plinth buildings are sitll partially standing.
I don't know, though... I've been to the Minoan palace complex of Knossos in Crete. It's a huge two-level palace, about 3-3.5 thousand years old, and it looks remarkably like THIS photo. There's still paint on the walls, and even the water mains and sewage pipes are still intact in places (the Minoans were exceptionally advanced, but that was before the Greek Dark Ages around 1000 BCE).
I mean, it's in such good condition it almost counts as an abandonment, rather than archaeology. :)
However, I think this particular little shed is aging very gracefully, vandals and scavengers nonwithstanding.
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| Posted by IIVQ |
5/29/2005 1:41 PM | remove |
It's because modern houses are built "cost efficient", with thin walls of bad quality materials which need to be maintained.
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