Because it is fantastically expensive now to quarry and work stone. Ask Trump. He is famous for a few marble floors and buildings. Also, marble stains and pits and takes upkeep. Modern resin composites are easier. (why didn't these ancient civilizations do that, if they were so sophisticated?). Granite lasts much better than marble, but is even harder to work and match and not as common. That makes a granite building much more of a prestige project. All stone is heavy compared to steel and concrete and you can't build very high, modern cities require a different construction. Most buildings used to have basements for cool storage, and coal storage, and when new buildings were built they often went over older ones--look at Seattle for a better example. Or Troy. Great fires do not burn stone. That's why the old stone things lasted a long time. Red brick is a cheap alternative and easy to do on site, whereas stone work requires a quarry somewhere and someone to haul the stones.
They want to believe that humans are weak, lazy, unimaginative, helpless, and that their lives are controlled by evil sinister forces, I think. So they have turned to fables.
I have architectural background and still work in construction, Have for decades. I 100% support OP's opinions because I've not only had much first hand experience but have also devoted many years and 1000s of hours of research into this topic.
I absolutely know with 100% certainty that we are incapable of constructing today most of the elaborate mega structures of the past including many of the structures attributed to the time frame of the mid to late 19th century.
If it's "fantastically expensive now to quarry and work stone" with the heavy machinery and high tech precision equipment available, how on Earth are we to believe the relatively "primitive" peoples of the past were able to achieve their architectural endeavours?
That is why we don't build such stone things, except for very rich people, and back then it was the same. Very rich people were calling the shots. Like kings. And if you want to see how-to. You Tube is full of many, many theories. Everything from showing how ordinary people used their muscles and brains and time to find away, to all the nihilistic "people can't do anything so it must have been aliens." Geez. How you are insulting thousands of people over thousands of years, saying that.
Calm down mate. The way the mega constructions were achieved in the past is a mystery. You stating how it was done via the rich people/ kings shows ignorance, not knowledge. All theories. We DON’T know. Who said aliens? Not me! Me stating “Relatively primitive” refers to the official narrative sheesh lol.
Because it is fantastically expensive now to quarry and work stone. Ask Trump. He is famous for a few marble floors and buildings. Also, marble stains and pits and takes upkeep. Modern resin composites are easier. (why didn't these ancient civilizations do that, if they were so sophisticated?). Granite lasts much better than marble, but is even harder to work and match and not as common. That makes a granite building much more of a prestige project. All stone is heavy compared to steel and concrete and you can't build very high, modern cities require a different construction. Most buildings used to have basements for cool storage, and coal storage, and when new buildings were built they often went over older ones--look at Seattle for a better example. Or Troy. Great fires do not burn stone. That's why the old stone things lasted a long time. Red brick is a cheap alternative and easy to do on site, whereas stone work requires a quarry somewhere and someone to haul the stones.
It seems as if most of the people positing these theories don't have any architectural background and are just fabricating claims.
They want to believe that humans are weak, lazy, unimaginative, helpless, and that their lives are controlled by evil sinister forces, I think. So they have turned to fables.
I have architectural background and still work in construction, Have for decades. I 100% support OP's opinions because I've not only had much first hand experience but have also devoted many years and 1000s of hours of research into this topic.
So you agree that these structures couldn't be built today? As in we literally are incapable of making these buildings rather than choose not to?
I absolutely know with 100% certainty that we are incapable of constructing today most of the elaborate mega structures of the past including many of the structures attributed to the time frame of the mid to late 19th century.
If it's "fantastically expensive now to quarry and work stone" with the heavy machinery and high tech precision equipment available, how on Earth are we to believe the relatively "primitive" peoples of the past were able to achieve their architectural endeavours?
That is why we don't build such stone things, except for very rich people, and back then it was the same. Very rich people were calling the shots. Like kings. And if you want to see how-to. You Tube is full of many, many theories. Everything from showing how ordinary people used their muscles and brains and time to find away, to all the nihilistic "people can't do anything so it must have been aliens." Geez. How you are insulting thousands of people over thousands of years, saying that.
Calm down mate. The way the mega constructions were achieved in the past is a mystery. You stating how it was done via the rich people/ kings shows ignorance, not knowledge. All theories. We DON’T know. Who said aliens? Not me! Me stating “Relatively primitive” refers to the official narrative sheesh lol.