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Skara Brae, which is 5000 years old, does have buildings and even furniture in a remarkable state of preservation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae htt
by arethuza 6y ago
Skara Brae, which is 5000 years old, does have buildings and even furniture in a remarkable state of preservation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae
- jankeymeulen 6y agoI've visited it and found it very worthwhile, but one needs to remember that at the same time they were building the pyramids in Egypt.
- arethuza 6y agoDifferent kinds of buildings though - I've been into one of the pyramids at Ghiza (Khafre's) and it actually doesn't look that interesting. I find the buildings at Skara Brae interesting because they are more human scale (beds and other furniture) and were where people actually lived for many hundreds of years - quite a bit before the pyramids at Giza at least.
- Qworg 6y agoSkara Brae was occupied as early as 3180 BC. Egyptians didn't finish the first pyramids until ~2600 BC. It is truly a wonder - especially given the different circumstances than a fertile river valley.
- brudgers 6y agoOf course 2600 BCE is about half way between the early Pre-dynastic period and the end of the Ptolemeic period. And only about a third of the way to present day. Egypt is mind bogglingly long lived.
- duxup 6y agoI don't think you really need to compare / remember that... we're talking history here, not some sort of building scorecard.