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Ancient Ethiopian Palace Could Have Stood 16 Storeys High, Study Finds

Computer simulations of a 2,800-year-old monumental building in northern Ethiopia suggest its unusual timber-reinforced walls were strong enough to support far more floors than archaeologists had previously assumed. This content was originally published on www.heritagedaily.com - © 2023 - HeritageDaily

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High-rise buildings are considered the invention of modern times. Now two scientists have submitted an investigation that a 2800-year-old palace in modern Ethiopia was multi-storey – up to 19 floors are conceivable.

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Researchers found that the 2,800-year-old Grat Be'al-Gibri Palace in Ethiopia had extremely strong walls and could theoretically withstand 16 floors ᐅ TSN.ua (1+1 News).

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In northern Ethiopia, in the former Yeha settlement, a joint research by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Technical University of Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) confirms that the societies of southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa were able to build buildings of many plants about 2,800 years ago. The calculations made on the Grat Be’al Gibri Palace indicate that their walls could have endured, from a structural point of view, at leas…

Archaeological discovery in Ethiopia The post Incredible find: 2.800 years old high-rise discovered during excavations first appeared on Nordisch.info.

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