tictac2@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year agoThe Ark of Bukhara is a spectacular-looking fortress located in Uzbekistan, built 1,500 years agolemmy.worldimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1373arrow-down15
arrow-up1368arrow-down1imageThe Ark of Bukhara is a spectacular-looking fortress located in Uzbekistan, built 1,500 years agolemmy.worldtictac2@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squaressboomman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoWas there any advantage to having it lean like that?
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoHarder to knock down or undermine?
minus-squarehiggs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHarder to get on the wall would be my guess
minus-squareRicaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoSeems to me it’d be a lot easier to scale this incline than a vertical wall
minus-squarerDrDr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoYou’d think it would lean the other way to make bit harder to climb. Edit: or this could be a view from the inside. Or maybe the goal is to keep people in rather than out.
minus-squaredaed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoAre we sure they built it like that 1500 years ago? Churches can suck down in the span of only a few hundred years.
minus-squareRicaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoWikipedia says it was built around the 5th century
minus-squarejerkbank@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoIs it a lean, or is it wider at the bottom?
minus-squareSordid@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s _/‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾\_ shaped. It’s not freestanding walls, the whole thing is an earthen mound with a flat top and its sides lined with bricks.
minus-squareBelgdore@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoNot this one, but newer forts were built with angled walls to help protect against canon balls and the like.
minus-squareSordid@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 year agoIn defensive terms, no, not really. They had to build it like this because these aren’t really walls per se, it’s just brick lining on the outside of an earthen mound, and mounds are, well, mound-shaped. https://gomadnomad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Bukharas-Ark-Palace.jpg
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYou’d think there’d be a reason beyond construction requirements, though—otherwise someone in the past 1,500 years would have replaced it with a more conventional wall.
minus-squareBB69@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt would’ve made siege ladders harder to set up.
minus-squareTb0n3@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoWho needs siege ladders when you can just climb up the damn wall?
minus-squareMyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoSo it doesn’t fall down
Was there any advantage to having it lean like that?
Harder to knock down or undermine?
Harder to get on the wall would be my guess
Seems to me it’d be a lot easier to scale this incline than a vertical wall
You’d think it would lean the other way to make bit harder to climb.
Edit: or this could be a view from the inside. Or maybe the goal is to keep people in rather than out.
Are we sure they built it like that 1500 years ago? Churches can suck down in the span of only a few hundred years.
Wikipedia says it was built around the 5th century
Is it a lean, or is it wider at the bottom?
This question confuses me geometrically
is it \ or △ shaped ?
It’s _/‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾\_ shaped. It’s not freestanding walls, the whole thing is an earthen mound with a flat top and its sides lined with bricks.
Not this one, but newer forts were built with angled walls to help protect against canon balls and the like.
In defensive terms, no, not really. They had to build it like this because these aren’t really walls per se, it’s just brick lining on the outside of an earthen mound, and mounds are, well, mound-shaped. https://gomadnomad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Bukharas-Ark-Palace.jpg
You’d think there’d be a reason beyond construction requirements, though—otherwise someone in the past 1,500 years would have replaced it with a more conventional wall.
It would’ve made siege ladders harder to set up.
Who needs siege ladders when you can just climb up the damn wall?
So it doesn’t fall down