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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3030249, member: 76194"]Imperial architecture is impressive, massive, and makes quite the statement. Compare it all to this Temple and narrow street built around 100 years before Imperial times. Its not what you'd expect the capital of the world to look like....small and rather conservative architecture, unorganized streets with buildings cutting through part of the road, buildings with stone facades instead of marble, unleveled streets full of bumps and holes, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the only picture I took of this dig, which was uncovered in the 1930s, though it is an entire street of Republic era buildings, and all look so small and simple compared to the imperial stuff we are used to. I'm regretting not taking pictures of the entire thing, but I was half drunk and in a hurry to get to a pizza place.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]755129[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3030249, member: 76194"]Imperial architecture is impressive, massive, and makes quite the statement. Compare it all to this Temple and narrow street built around 100 years before Imperial times. Its not what you'd expect the capital of the world to look like....small and rather conservative architecture, unorganized streets with buildings cutting through part of the road, buildings with stone facades instead of marble, unleveled streets full of bumps and holes, etc. This is the only picture I took of this dig, which was uncovered in the 1930s, though it is an entire street of Republic era buildings, and all look so small and simple compared to the imperial stuff we are used to. I'm regretting not taking pictures of the entire thing, but I was half drunk and in a hurry to get to a pizza place. [ATTACH=full]755129[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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