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I'd love to see the pyramids when they were first built. They are still very impressive 4000 years later, but to see them when just completed, with the golden t

I'd love to see the pyramids when they were first built. They are still very impressive 4000 years later, but to see them when just completed, with the golden top and the polished limestone and all the other decoration that probably existed then... The massive structures still remain, but they must be ruins compared to their past splendor.

KineticLensman 8y ago
Ditto Hadrian's Wall [0] in the UK. It's still impressive as it cuts across the Northern moors, but is a mass of grey stone. Back in the day, it was believed to have been plastered and whitewashed, creating a stunning 70 mile long visual marker of the Northern extent of the Roman empire [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall