Needs to cut down on the baklava.
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Was there any advantage to having it lean like that?
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?
Not this one, but newer forts were built with angled walls to help protect against canon balls and the like.
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.
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
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
Harder to knock down or undermine?
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.
According to the Wikipedia article on the history of Bukhara:
After the fall of the Kushan Empire, Bukhara passed into the hands of Hua tribes from the Mongolian steppe and entered a steep decline. However, the 5th century saw an unprecedented growth in urban and rural settlements throughout the entire oasis. Around this time the whole oasis territory was surrounded by a more than 400 km long wall.
I assume this structure dates to that period of construction?
Ark of Rolling Shutter
Damn, those layer lines are clean. Link to STL?
The layer shifting is pretty severe in this print!
People accomplished so much without TV and Internet.
This is super interesting! Not just mildly. :)
The front gate of the castle is huge and impressive, but the backside is like those toddlers with the open ass-flap in ancient Disney-movies.
In case you were curious, like is was, the walls are 16 to 20 m (52 to 66 ft) tall.
I wonder, the walls may be even thinker than they are tall at the bottom
Hard to understand the scale.
What does it take to get you very interested? This is pretty amazing to me.
Very cool. Cross-posted to !castles@lemm.ee, where you can find more ancient structures.
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Good bot! I had a feeling I was messing that up.
