On the left we have a picture of ruins of an ancient city, and on the right we have a picture of a computer motherboard....
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While I'm all for the idea of harmonics being involved, I think it's more likely the columns were there to allow for a modular system of setting up market stalls.
Between each column you could put up partitions as well as mount boards on top to drape tenting and keep the sunlight out.
The cloth and wood boards will have long since perished, leaving behind the curious-looking columns -- like a skeleton with the meat long since having withered away.
Guards could also situation themselves on top of the columns and patrol any walkways between them in order to get a good vantage point to spot pickpockets and shop lifters.
Don't get me wrong; I'd like to think there is some unseen and mystic power associated with these structures, but Occam's Razor suggest that they are just cleverly engineered market squares that allow for quick and easy dismantling of your market stall.
When you have less to work with, you get clever with the tools you do have.
Geometry used to be the end-all-be-all of knowledge.
Now we have systems in place and standardized dimensional modularity (like 2x4 boards, cinder blocks, bricks, etc.) that takes all the thinking out of it.
It used to be that every hewn board was built for the project at hand. Now, we frame projects around the standard dimensions of our material.
Geometry scholars produced a fool-proof system, and in doing so made it unnecessary for everyone to understand the geometry; thereby creating more fools than ever before.
Much like cell phones made it so that memorizing numbers is a lost art.