TOP 15 OLDEST Buildings Still Standing
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Throughout history, humanity has erected countless structures, but only a select few have endured the test of time. From ancient temples that have weathered millennia to fortresses that have guarded empires for centuries, these buildings have borne witness to the enduring resilience of architectural design. Join us on a journey through the ages as we uncover the top 15 oldest buildings that are still standing.
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You've managed to conflate the tower of Babel story in the Bible with the tower of Jericho. Two completely different things.
They did it on purpose. They keep trying to confuse people about Tower of Babel. Look up Finklestien. He's also spreading misinformation. They COUNT on your lack of specified knowledge.
I was like…wait..ain’t it the tower of Babylon? Because God supposedly made them babble? 🤷🏾♂️😂🤣
@@lyriktehuti I think that is where we get the word babble, from Babel.
@@stlmopoetI guess you can say this guy is just speaking nonesense... get it?😂
@@lyriktehutiif I remember the story right, that's where our different languages started.
The Pantheon...like wow, how insanely smart were the engineers of that time to build the hole that works with rain instead of rain against it, perfection!
While interesting, very misleading title. Most are ruins, not buildings that are STILL STANDING.
agreed, it is highly misleading
The thumbnail picture shows the Porta Nigra but it's not shown in the video!
Around 0:55, when you are discussing the site of "Mehrgarh," the image shown is actually from the dig site of Caesaria Philippi, known more specifically as Banias, in far norther Israel The picture was taken about 100 yards south of the parking lots from the site, about a quarter mile from Kibbutz Snir. The arches in the background are very distinctive--I participated in the archaeological dig at this site in 1997, about 10 yards from where this picture was taken.
Busted!
This channels and many like it are almost entirely ripped off/ AI. They get a lot of stuff wrong.
For the most part, if it's just a disembodied voice talking over a video, it's likely just copied/ stolen content with an AI voice
Who sponsored your dig?
I was taking a leisurely and undirected walk around Rome and happened upon the Pantheon. I almost had a heart attack. It was magnificent...and I still treasure the moment.
This takes "standing" to a whole new meaning. Last time I checked ruins Burried underground doesn't quite mean standing
Sorry, doctor Jones.....😂
Ever heard of Pompeii?
If it's still intact, it's still standing, even if covered by dirt.
Indeed. Ruins are hardly 'still standing', or able to be used for their intended purpose (or any purpose other than tourism...)
As for Pompeii - It's ruins, and hardly 'still standing', though there are quite a few buildings there that are in probably useable condition, many of them are partial walls.
I don't think the 'buried underground' prohibits it from being 'still standing', however the amount of actual ruins shown are hardly 'still standing'.
@teptime yes I have but if you are buried and have dirt holding you up IE something all around you and on top of you supporting you're every surrounding its not standing is it.
Just goes to show that we don't know a very large chunk of our past history.
We don't really "know" squat about ancient history. Recorded accounts are by no means reliable, not least when they have been rewritten and translated multiple times, and piecing the past together from unearthed detrius is based entirely on speculation.
Isn’t this pretty obvious and expected given the vastness and lack of information about human history?
Weird comment
It was not the tower of Jericho that was built to reach god, but the Tower of Babel!
Which probably was a ziggurat.
the most amazing thing about the Pantheon is that the light from the hole at the top will shine on the front doors once a year - on the day believed to be the anniversary of the founding of Rome.
All these videos are really amazing to watch! It can be appreciated how passed civilizations lived and, the way buildings were built! These constructions trascended to be considered today and be thankful for it. They survived the inclemencias of the weathers!❤
You forgot Newgrange, North,and Douth in Ireland. 😢
The picture used to entice people to view the video is of the Porta Nigra, in Trier, Germany. Where is it mentioned?
No mention of the 4000BC Brun na Boynne Co Meath Ireland, the oldest building still waterproof..
8:54 didn't know there were marlboros in the 6th century
8:53 the image of Prince Shōtoku smoking is from DeviantArt. The Prince couldn't have smoked, since tobacco wasn't introduced to Japan until the 1500s, so this is anachronistic.
I think it's just a cheeky bit of advertising.
lol! I wondered about that.
Tower of Babel. Walls of Jericho.
There's a place in Yemen at Shibam Hadramout. The building there are over 700 years old and still inhabited by people it considered the first skyscrapers
Right before Christmas of 1991, my wife and I were in Rome. We went to a nighttime Christmas open air fair in the Piazza Navona that was once was the Stadium of Domitian. It started to rain, so we walked a few blocks eastward heading to the Metro station at the Colosseum but then it really started to rain. We followed some people who were going into what I thought was a large church. It actually was the Pantheon. I didn't even realize what it was until i was inside. It was amazing! And no rain was coming down from the hole in the roof even though a moment ago I was getting deluged. I stood there, looking up at the hole and amazed no rain was falling on me.
Despite factual errors in the narration, I was still introduced to a surprising number of structures previously unknown to me by any description.
I was at Winchester Cathedral recently, the current version of which has been in use for about 900 years. you think, Wow! Then you go to the Pantheon and its 1900 years !!
There's a market 4 miles from me that's been going (apart from a pause during WW2) for 4000 years. The local council maintain it for heritage reasons despite a newer and much larger Victorian market in use on the opposite side of the town centre.
@@darthwiizius Which market is that?
@@admiralbenbow5083
It's in Hitchin. It operates as a little pin market now with traders selling brik-a-brak, old swords and the like. I think most of them are there to keep it going because you can't really make a living at the place. At it's heyday it would have bustled as local farmers, livestock owners, blacksmiths, farriers, leather merchants etc would have been there once a week to barter. It likely became quite useful for the Romans being just off the route of the Roman Icknield Way as it skirted past and up past what became Letchworth and a lot of other villages after crossing the Chilterns.
A number of these examples could hardly be described as still standing
From video 14 through the very last number one, although I missed taking pics of some. I enjoyed watching it!
I Thought the Tower Built to Reach God was the Tower of Babel not the Tower of Jericho.
To omit Newgrange from this list is a major error - it is older than the pyramids, and can still be visited, an easy drive from Dublin.
This is a terrible list mate, the oldest neo-lithic structures in the British isles are on the Orkneys and some very impressive ones have been discovered. They are the only culture that ever colonised the whole of the British mainland which is reflected by the relatively modern structure at Stonehenge.
The 11,000 year old structure to me is the most fascinating. It would be so interesting to learn how so ancient a society harnessed agriculture and built this complex.
maybe it was built by Noahs decedents after the flood since its in Turkey, or maybe it was built before the flood and managed to survive, that would explain why it was abandoned and filled in with dirt
@@dguy0386 Most certainly Noah's offspring. All others were drowned by a loving god.
@@dguy0386 You do not know your religion do you? Noah would have lived 6500 years after göbekli Tepe was built... But the real question is how can someone today believe that everything said in the bible and old testament is really true
@@dguy0386 You are aware, right, that there was no flood?
Göbekli Tepe was not an agricultural society - it was built by hunter-gatherers before agriculture was discovered and therefore negates the theory that civilization started only after agriculture. Göbekli Tepe predates agriculture and was probably a ceremonial city only.
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0:24 the newest text??? 🤩🤩🤩
Imagine what was involved in building those ancient stone structures without the availability of modern machinery. Just amazing! 😊😊😊
the people who built that stuff had advanced machinery. Use your brain
@@rellik8746I’d suggest the same for YOU. The ancients responsible for the construction of these great structures most certainly didn’t have modern machinery or technology to aid them. It was done with ancient- albeit very advanced for THAT time- concepts and with considerable brute human effort. Try gaining at least a passing modicum of respect and common courtesy.
Every USA state capital was already here we didnt build a single one START THINKING. How do you think in the 1800s with no power tools and horse and buggy all these cities were built?? WE ARE JUST TURNING THE LIGHTS BACK ON@@saragrant9749
@@saragrant9749 If you go to the Giza Plateau and your able to walk about freely and you know what to look for you will find very much evidence of modern cutting machines being used. In fact evidence can be found all across the Earth. You obviously do not know what there is?.
Sorry dude, it's the Tower Of Babel, Jericho was the city that got knocked down to the ground. I'm actually surprised you got that wrong
Jaguars in Gobekli Tepe? That's quite interesting, since jaguars are native to South and Central America.
Great channel. Love your work team.
Gobekli Tepe could have been a central meeting place for various tribes. An exchange of culture, goods, and relationships at a certain time during the year, or once every few years. An early experiment for multiple hunter/gatherer tribes to meet at a central location during predetermined intervals.
Woohoo, my home town Shrewsbury mentioned. The Flaxmill is basically the original skyscraper.
Salop the real home of the industrial revolution
incredible techniques !
but where on your list are Angkor Vat, Stonehenge and the Cologne dome ?
This is your best video so far! Thanks.
I'd love to also see one on the oldest buildings still in use
The Pantheon is still in use.
It is a Catholic Church.
There are several Roman baths which are still in use to this day. I think there’s one in North Africa.
they got lil boys trapped in there?@@TesterAnimal1
Taos nm Pueblo. Continuously occupied for 2000 yrs.
@@TesterAnimal1 Those baths are in Algeria near Khenchela named Hammam Essahaline. I was there a month ago and they’re still operating.
Its not the tower of Jericho, its the tower of Babel.
Come on bru.
There is a Tower of Jericho, but it has nothing to do with the Tower of Babel mentioned in the Bible. Dude got them confused, and confused everyone else as a result.
The Taos Pueblo building is over 1,000 years old. It has been occupied, and still is, continuously for all those years.
I know you couldn't include every old building, but I had to mention Skara Brae, a stone built Neolithic settlement on Orkney Island. From Wikipedia: "The site was occupied from roughly 3180 BC to about 2500 BC and is Europe's most complete Neolithic village. Skara Brae gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status as one of four sites making up "The Heart of Neolithic Orkney". Older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Giza, it has been called the "Scottish Pompeii" because of its excellent preservation."
I know that under a big buried temple complex they found older constructions that date back even further. The Orcadians colonised the whole of mainland Britain, how do we know this? Something first created on the Orkneys referred to as a "dresser" because of similarity to modern dressing tables were discovered around Stonehenge in the remains of the housing there, they are found across the island and get older the closer you get to the Orkneys. The British Orcadians also invented ball bearings too, that's how they moved large stones across the land, no one knows how they did on the Orkneys but it has been surmised that they laid beds of wet slippery seaweed down and slid the stones, they wouldn't have had access to that on much of the mainland.
Jók ezek a kisfilmek nagyon. Lesz kőnigsegg és rimac is? Legyen!!
What about the neolithic settlement of Skara Brae and other sites from the same era on the Orkney Islands of Scotland? Why are these not on the list?
going to Japan next year and hope to see Horyu-Ji temple
Me too!!! I hope to see the temple!
I guess still standing isn't what we thought it would be most of these structures in my view are not still standing they look like rubble.
Nearly all these buildings aren't still standing, they're ruins.
The tower if Jericho If that's what it is is not standing
the porta nigra located in trier germany in the thumbnail wich clickbites me in here is quite old too build around the year 170 :)
#1 - That was the tower of Babel
The Pantheon is a remarkable work of skilled builders. I would love to see it in person! They don't build them like that anymore!❤❤❤❤
The Pantheon is one of my favorite biuildings that I have visited, and I strongly urge that you visit it yourself as well. There are so many ancient buildings in Rome to see, and you should include The Forum on your list, not to mention The Coliseum. Also there are many museums to visit.
What? No Augustus temple from Pula? No Dioclecian's palace?
It’s crazy to think how many of our ancestors lived in any one of these ancient cities it’s such a weird world you never know
@2FRESH-This is why I want to follow my genealogy. I want to know who stated us...how far back in history do my Daddy's people go.
Very interesting, but my comment is to the fact that the host has a tremendous grasp of how to pronounce all the sometimes difficult place names. It is nice to see and hear. BRAVO SIR, your attention in English class does you credit.
Where is the Parthenon ?
8:52 7th Century Japanese Prince enjoying a smooth, mild Benson and Hedges.
The oldest wooden structure in the World is one that has been found in a river in Zambia in 2019.
477.000 years old
Yeah, never heard of it.
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The picture that represents this video in the list view appears to be the Porta Negra or Black Gate in Trier Germany. This dates from around the 3rd Century CE. It would be good if the channel manager could confirm this.
Jaguars in Turkey?
Interesante historia
What about the porta nigra shown in the preview?
I thought these were supposed to still be standing. To my mind that should include still having a roof.
When you said "oldest still standing" I thought you were going to show buildings that had walls and a roof. That is what "still standing" actually means. Ruins are no longer standing and anything from the Industrial Age is not old.
You’re right. This guy is way off the mark with lots of stuff here…
Would be nice if location of each site was revealed
Do you want a map, as well?!
Shown enjoying a smoke, Shotoku Taishi appears onJapan's 10,000 yen note. He is credited with having been behind Japan's first attempts at a Constitution.
I thought the cigarette an astonishingly modern touch
Egypt's Pyramids of Giza, Italy's Rome's Colosseum, United Kingdom's Stone Henge, Greece's temples, Japan's castles, China's The Great wall, Tower of Pisa, Franch Paris Eiffel Tower, Peru's Machu Pichu, and my home country Finland's Turun linna Castle of Turku are coming to my mind when im thinking about old buildings what are still standing. How people builded BIG buildings like Pyramids without today's building vehicles thousands years before BC and on middle times? That video was good. History is full of mystery. 🌍🌎🌏🏞🏟🛖🏰🏯⛩️🗼
Eiffel Tower no chance, rather Notre dame or castles
Yeah you can’t tell me Indians in Mumbai can build huge buildings…but no plumbing?? 🤔
Stone Henge is a new build mate, the oldest stuff in the UK is on the Orkneys.
The majority of these are ruins that had to be excavated .
I wouldn't call ruins buildings
Skara Brae in Orkney wasn't mentioned either.😢
Where are the Maya tempels of Honduras and Mexico ect?
World's first stone building? Skara Brae said "hold my beer"
How are you going to title this "oldest stone buildings still standing" and put "modern" structures in it.
How could you not know about the structural work done on the Step Pyramid by the German Engineers that was finished in 2020? The 6.6 million dollar project took 14 years to complete. The Step pyramid is not going to collapse.
And Gobekli Tepe... Vultures okay. But Jaguars... ? I think not.
I had no idea France had these sites. I thought Europes "besides Italy and Greece" oldest structures were it's castles.
I do know the Coliseum was for entertainment, if watching animals pping man apart can b considered entertainment
We have Neolithic sites all over mate, some pretty staggering in scale. On the French Atlantic coast they found that some stones in some woods were part of an installation of a hundred+ standing stones all neatly arranged in rows and columns, the woods had grown after they were abandoned. If France was like the UK then the sites were abandoned after the arrival of metallurgy, many sites in the UK were found not to have been covered by nature over the years but filled in deliberately just after metal came into use. Stonehenge had really only just been completed (in relative terms) when it was abandoned and some of the stones pulled down with some just outright removed deliberately. Fun fact: At many sites in Britain stone balls have been found all around them, some ornate and some plain. When they were examined it was found they had an astonishing level of craftmanship and accuracy, the balls around each site were of uniform dimension for that site. In short, the ball bearing is older than Egypt, consider that engineering hammer blow that far back.
@@hollyprincipato3287 I would love to see that. More entertaining than anything Disney has put out 😂
@@darthwiizius I am aware of Stonehenge in England. But in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, I genuinely thought Castles were the oldest structures. I have always loved archeology but my focus has always been the Americas, China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, they are iconic. I will have to expand and look deeper into Europe.
@@chowsanen2
What cultures like Egypt and Rome achieved was a greater level of organisation than seen before, they are really the progenitors of what we consider to be modern nation states now. It must have quite something to come out of the desert and seen for miles this great shimmering limestone covered pyramid in the distance and realising by the time it's taking to get there how big it must be, must have been mind blowing. I suppose it's quite natural to think of western Europe in terms of the medieval era as the modern cultures today derive from that period in the main, the Romans were very efficient at snuffing out the older cultures as part of their imperial exploitations. My local tribe was ruled by Boudica which while we know about her the tribe she ruled (Iceni) have completely disappeared from history, no doubt because they warred with the Romans after the Roman genocide of the druids on Anglesey.
"top 15 oldest buildings still standing" - shows a bunch of abandoned ruins and like 3 or 4 buildings that are in fact still in use.
Title says, "buildings still standing" and most of the structures shown are ruins. WTH!
So if it's a crumbled ruin it's still considered standing???? Need a big * next to some of these.
"I'll see you guys next time" : let's hope his research is more thorough.
Still standing? The majority of these are ruins
Nice video!
Gobekli tepe,ankor wat and easter Island are preflood civilizations
And the pantheon, stone henge, pyramids were also preflood .. .
Dude literally skipped over the Roman history of the pantheon. It was rebuilt nearly 1000 years later but it was built by agrippa Augustus Caesar’s friend and general (who fought against mark antony) and was dedicated to Augustus who is gaius Julius’ nephew/adopted son and the first emperor of Rome
@20:23
@@Robert-tj3qq yes but barely went over. It was heavily biased on post ancient era
Missing central and southern america completely
Gobekli Tepe was a transitional site. Both early growing of grains and also hunter gathering was practiced. They believed that they were part of nature and their calendar was comprised of which activities were done and when certain animals were hunted, when grains were harvested and they practiced early Astronomy. This natural phenomenon religion later developed into a magical component with initiation ceremonies inside dark cellars with spooky depictions of early gods or ancestors. Gobekli Tepe probably was created for the production, storing and grinding of grain. It may not have been occupied the whole year or that different wandering nomads made use of it. The site was intentionally covered by sand, when too few people were left to maintain it or use it, or when climate change (!) forced them out.
UK neolithic sites were filled in shortly after the arrival of metallurgy when the Beaker people turned up.
At 0:26 I wonder if hi is confusing it with the tower of Babylon, (different location, different tower)
The Colosseum in Rome could or would never be used as something with water. Underneath are all the cavernous rooms where the animals & people waited to be exhibited. Plus, the first few rows of seats are almost at dirt level. I've visited it several times and invariably someone asks "Didn't they have battles like on water here? Every time the tour guide would look at that person with a "Are you kidding me?" look and then go into all the reasons why is couldn't nor hasn't ever happened.
Why haven’t you included Newgrange here? Surely if you actually knew what you were talking about you’d have included Newgrange…
Very Good!... #238 {5-11-2024}
I question the accuracy of here
20:33 The front "porch" of the Pantheon was built by a different team than the rest of the building. Apparently they hated each other enough that they didn't talk to each other. You will notice the porch roof does not match where it is supposed to go on the building. Once the issue was realized, it was too late and too expensive to fix. I believe one of the builders was put to death for this....
Totally bad, random list that isn’t the 15 oldest buildings
I recommend the Forbidden City of Beijing
dates are wrong on many of these, many are much older. Also, the historical background discussed is missing tons of context
Of course in that list missing a lot important one, like : Baalbek , Lebanon 🇱🇧 and the mistérios Pregnant Women stone. The biggest Megalithic in the world. Also Stone Henge and more.
Some of these are questionable for "still standing" ruins barely making the cut, but great video regardless!
Edit: The coliseum was definitely not "the place to be" if you were Christian! Sheesh, man.
Some of these buildings seem to be ruins. I would not call them standing.
Not a mention of Machu Pichu, or any of the pyramids in south and central America?
They are relatively young
What about Solider Field?
No Parthenon? Knossos palace?
you say that the tower of Jericho and gobekli tepe are both the oldest buildings in the world.
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@@cmc2550thanks!