Steel beams in antiquity

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Why do ancient structures not stand up to detailed analysis? Examples of building technologies that do not coincide with the state of the art according to historical dogma.

Cast iron trusses in the ceiling of St. Basil's Cathedral are 300 years ahead of the official date

“A truss is a structure of triangular elements. For example, large shopping malls, factory workshops, large railway bridges are built from such trusses. And such trusses support this flat ceiling. They are made of cast iron. Where they came from is completely incomprehensible.

To give you an idea of the scale of this innovation, the following metal trusses (that is, the trusses that form the roof) appear only in the early to mid-19th century! That is, already 300 years before the global progress in the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, these structures arose. If these were Italians-architects, this does not explain anything: in Italy this was not at that time! It is still unclear how this came about."

Farms of the Pantheon

The rafters of the most important buildings, such as the Ulpia Basilica or the Pantheon portico, are made of bronze. The trusses of the Pantheon do not deviate in the sense of the drawing from the wooden structure, but the cross-section of the parts is quite consistent with the use of metal; they are box-shaped and made of three bronze sheets connected by bolts.

It can, apparently, be considered established that the large hall of cold baths in the thermal baths of Caracalla also had an overlapping terrace that lay on T-beams. Thus, the Romans were ahead of us in the rational profiling of metal parts.

The richest collection of metal elements in "antiquities" was presented by ISIS terrorists:

Ruins of Hatra with fittings

ISIS has revealed very interesting details to the world regarding this ancient monument.

The sculptures and decorations turned out to be made of modern reinforced concrete. This is clearly seen in the frames with channels and fittings, which were opened during the destruction of the monuments.

Ref. channel - a standard profile of structural elements of rolled metal, having a "P" -shaped section.

Below is a video and detailed photos of the destruction:

Photos before the destruction:

statue with reinforcement at the legs:

Constructor elements:

This is actually a "large-scale reconstruction". Or a construction site?

The most harmless version is that all these are the results of the reconstruction that took place during the reign of Saddam Hussein (1979-2003). He is known to have had a large antiquity restoration program to exalt the historical significance of Iraq and the succession from Mesopotamia. In the Republican Guard even divisions bore the ancient names: "Nebuchadnezzar", "Hammurabi".

However, in this regard, the question arises - what part of what is presented as the greatest monument of 2 thousand years ago was restored and strengthened, and what was this monument like before restoration. The question is not simple, there are practically no old photographs of this complex on the Internet.

Note that according to the official version, pyrons (metal inserts) were widely used in ancient times, and this metal rod sticking out of a fragment of an antique statue corresponds to the official version.

Parthian female statue from Hatra

The famous winged lions of the biblical city of Nineveh

It is the center of worship for the goddess Ishtar and the great capital of Assyria. The main masterpiece is the palace of King Senacherib with gigantic statues of guards - pairs of winged lion-men and bull-men (allegedly the 8th century BC).

Nineveh was discovered with a palace by the great British archaeologist Austin Henry Layard in 1845-1851. No photo was taken of the excavation. Like the discovery of "ancient Egypt", the discovery of Nineveh is reflected only in drawings. The first photographs were taken from the "excavated" palace.

These guards were acquired by the largest museums in the world - the Louvre, the British Museum, Baghdad, the Metropolitan in New York, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The couple stayed in Nineveh.

The winged guard of Nineveh, he is also a shedu-visible rectangular block.

The residence of the famous Assyrian king Sargon II of the Dur-Sharrukin fortress (allegedly the VIII century BC)

Modern fittings are visible inside the Assyrian ancient sculpture.

The fortress was "opened" by the French Consul General Paul-Emile Botta in 1842-44, and continued to "open" Victor Place in 1852-55. The famous cuneiform bible was also found here.

Winged geniuses

In literature, history, culture, they are called "winged geniuses". Sometimes with human faces, sometimes with birds, the popular "Assyrian" plot of insemination of the "tree of life".

This is a slab of alabaster, allegedly made in 870 BC. This deity is called Nisrokh, an analogue of the Scandinavian Freyr; The slab had, as follows from the cuneiform writing, a cult purpose: during ceremonies, the priests poured water on it, which was then collected in vessels; this rite became the prototype of Christian grace.

Decorated the palace of Ashur-Nazir-Apal II (Ashurnazirpal) in Kalakh, which was "dug up" in 1845-1851.

Bas-reliefs with "winged geniuses" adorned all the main palaces of the Assyrian kings. There were 37 pairs of "geniuses" in the palace of Sargon II Dur-Sharrukin. This couple and five separate "geniuses" were kept in the Mosul Museum. They are in all the major museums in the world - the Hermitage, British, Metropolitan, Louvre, etc.

The "artifact" itself, as expected, is not solid, but consists of segments convenient for assembly and transportation.

In the segments, you can see short reinforcing bars on the front side and grooves for the segment fasteners.

The armature also protrudes from the back of the segments. It was used to attach a bas-relief in the wall of the "palace of the Assyrian king".

Long reinforcing bars, about half the length of the segment, protrude from the lower end side.

At first, radical Islamist vandals hammered the "ancient bas-relief" with all their foolishness like a solid slab, a curved reinforcement is visible in the hole, then when it became clear that the bas-relief could be disassembled like a lego, they began to break it "according to the rules."

Then they took a grinder and cut the reinforcement connecting the segments, which has nowhere to come from in the "ancient Assyrian bas-reliefs".