The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years
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Re: The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years
#2I guess tombs don't count as used
Re: The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years
#3I guess tombs don't count as used
Ha, not if nobody visits them any more.
Re: The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years
#4Got to visit it once. Truly an amazing space to experience.
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#5My Wife surprised me with the Pantheon. We were walking through Rome and she steered me to this rather ugly building (at least on the outside). When we got in I was flabbergasted. It is an astonishing space, surpassed only by Saint Peters in Rome to me anyway. I had studied it as a kid but only in books, and never paid much attention to the outside, so the surprise was magnificent. One of the great experiences of my life.
Re: The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years
#6I guess tombs don't count as used
The headline does not read “The only ancient building still being used”
Re: The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years
#7I'm not sure it counts as a 'building', but Stone Henge in the UK has been in use for more than 4000 years. It's also well worth a visit if you're at all interested in weird ancient stuff.
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#8Another remarkable building that is not quite so old (a mere ~1500 years) is the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul:
Re: The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years
#9I'm not sure it counts as a 'building', but Stone Henge in the UK has been in use for more than 4000 years. It's also well worth a visit if you're at all interested in weird ancient stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge#After_the_monument_..., emphasis added:
“The Y and Z Holes are the last known construction at Stonehenge, built about 1600 BC, and the last usage of it was probably during the Iron Age. Roman coins and medieval artefacts have all been found in or around the monument but it is unknown if the monument was in continuous use throughout British prehistory and beyond, or exactly how it would have been used. Notable is the massive Iron Age hillfort known as Vespasian's Camp (despite its name, not a Roman site) built alongside the Avenue near the Avon. A decapitated seventh-century Saxon man was excavated from Stonehenge in 1923. The site was known to scholars during the Middle Ages and since then it has been studied and adopted by numerous groups”
So, it seems there may have been a thousand or so years it wasn’t in use. I think that puts the “still” part into doubt.
Re: The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years
#10My Wife surprised me with the Pantheon. We were walking through Rome and she steered me to this rather ugly building (at least on the outside). When we got in I was flabbergasted. It is an astonishing space, surpassed only by Saint Peters in Rome to me anyway. I had studied it as a kid but only in books, and never paid much attention to the outside, so the surprise was magnificent. One of the great experiences of my…
The experience is absolutely overwhelming. Same here, I read about it, heard about it, also thought: "Damn it, looks like it could need a paint".
This is so stunning. Moving from the outside to the middle was only a couple of meters but really an adventure. Something like the Grand Canyon in reverse, really hard to describe.