Posted on 04/15/2024 10:41:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:06 The Forum and Colosseum
2:27 The Ara Pacis
3:24 Early restorations
4:37 Mondly
5:47 Roman forts and baths
6:42 Knossos
7:23 The Stoa of Attalus
8:59 The Acropolis
10:05 When to restore?Why Most "Ancient" Buildings are Fakes | 11:18
toldinstone | 494K subscribers | 122,499 views | April 12, 2024
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” My great-grandchild, when I get one, will be completely unable to tell time with it.”
Hilarious! And so true.
Replace the hands with a miniature digital readout of time.
The White House, which has undergone several renovations, is also fake, as is Independence Hall in Philadlphia and the Alamo on San Antonio, Texas.
Stonehenge has been reassembled to what it looks like now. Has concrete bases, iirc
If you want to see old buildings that aren’t “fake”, I follow “The Trek Planner” on youtube. He is just a guy that locates possible ancient ruins in the American SW, then drives and hikes to them and explores them carefully. When he is allowed to he flies a drone as well.
Below is a pretty amazing intact structure (defense/lookout tower?) perched high on an outcrop. These seems younger than a lot of his finds, so it may be more modern Indian. Most of his stuff is Anastazi, etc. But it is cool to see stuff that has been relatively untouched by modern people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr-x_CDRbug
We’ll always have Cadillac Ranch.
But Cadillac Ranch has been moved, so everything is fake. Plus, they were painted in honor of BLM, so f’em.
Garbage article.
I copied and pasted it into chatgpt with the instructions “Remove numbering. Add punctuation and paragraphs:”
American archaeologists excavated the Agora beginning in the 1930s and did a magnificent job. The Stoa of Attalus displays the most important finds from the excavations. Tourists flock to the Agora and Greece benefits from the tourist dollars. But they resent Americans as colonialists?
Greece has a lot of ancient sites, some famous, others less so. They have doled out a few to foreigners to exavate (Americans, Germans, French, British, etc.). The US got the Agora, the excavations at Ancient Corinth, and maybe one or two others. The French got Delphi. The Germans got Olympia, etc.
Greece in the 1930s was very poor--could they have afforded to do a proper job on the Athenian Agora?
It's more common than you'd think:
Fancy!
“”Someone stole all of my furniture, tvs and everything else and replaced it with identical looking copies.””
First thought that comes to mind.......Bedbugs.
Paul Revere’s house, which has been “restored” to either its original form, which was already 90 years old when Revere bought it, was at one time in the late 1800s an Italian grocery store with an awning. They claim that the “restored” house is 90 percent “original”, but that may mean “original” circa 1770-1800 when Revere lived there.
I’ve been in there. The windows aren’t authentic to Revere’s time, overall a worthwhile experience with the low-feeling ceilings and (if memory serves) the steep staircase (I’m used to that, the remaining frontier-era homes around here have those as well).
A local stopped and gave us a bit of info regarding Revere’s workshop, which has served a variety of purposes for a variety of different owners. :^) This was in the late 1970s, perhaps it has been turned into an open site by now.
*ouch*
You are right, given the dedication of many to accurate reconstruction and restoration. Calling them “fake” is a slur against those curators of the past who dedicate their lives to this sort of thing. We all know about the use of Roman spolia all around Italy, this is no secret. We know much of the 20th century restoration was ordered and financed by Mussolini. So maybe we should tear it back down and leave it in piles of blocks laying around the city? This is just stupid.
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