Neat that the edge holds up so well today! What kind of size are we looking at? What’s the scale? Around a kilometer across? Half? What population do experts think lived here?
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2024
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Photos of ruins and structures from past eras
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What is a ruin? We're running off of "You know it when you see it" at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like. Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to [email protected] Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected] Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to [email protected]
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Ardashir's new city was known as Khor Ardashīr, Ardashīr Khurrah and Gōr. It had a circular plan so precise in measurement that the Persian historian Ibn Balkhi wrote it to be "devised using a compass". It was protected by a trench 50 meters in width, and was 2 kilometers in diameter. The city had four gates; to the north was the Hormozd Gate, to the south the Ardashir Gate, to the east the Mithra Gate and to the west the Wahram Gate. The royal capital's compounds were constructed at the center of a circle 450 m in radius. At the center of the town there was a lofty platform or tower, called Terbal. It was 30 m high and spiral in design.
So back then how would you get such a good circle that is 2k in diameter? Would you send people walking out from the center, a long ass rope or what?
they used spongebob's method for drawing a perfect circle
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