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The headline is a bit misleading "As many buildings as Manhattan"? I see maybe 20 buildings in articles photo. Is this Manhattan in 1640 or something?
by BatFastard 9y ago
The headline is a bit misleading "As many buildings as Manhattan"? I see maybe 20 buildings in articles photo.
Is this Manhattan in 1640 or something?
- geofft 9y agoFrom the subhead above the picture: 'If you do the maths, all of a sudden you are talking about 40,000 building foundations up there'
- coldtea 9y agoThe article photo is cgi reconstruction from another geological site -- not from the city described, and it says so in the caption. In fact it's in a different country altogether: Guatemala.
- gus_massa 9y agoI think that the misleading part is that many (most) of the 40000 buildings in Manhattan are skyscrapers and the 40000 buildings in the ancient city had only 1 (or 2?) stories. In particular Manhattan has a population of 1600000 and many buildings are offices without permanent population, but that city had only 100000 habitants.
- gowld 9y agoAnd the buildings in the ancient had much smaller footprint than 0.1 of a Manhattan city block. (Manhattan has ~2500 blocks)