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Five thousand years of building

From Giza to now — what does the order of these places say about what humans build for?

  1. 1 Great Pyramid of Giza · 2600 BCE
  2. 2 Stonehenge · 2505 BCE
  3. 3 Treasury of Atreus, Mycen… · 1255 BCE
  4. 4 Pont du Gard · 1
  5. 5 Colosseum · 80
  6. 6 The Pantheon, Rome · 113
  7. 6 Rome · 113
  8. 7 Hagia Sophia, Constantino… · 532
  9. 7 Constantinople · 532
  10. 8 Durham Cathedral · 1093
  11. 9 Basilica of Saint-Denis · 1144
  12. 10 Notre-Dame de Paris · 1163
  13. 11 Chartres Cathedral · 1194
  14. 12 Home Insurance Building, … · 1885
  15. 12 Chicago · 1885
  16. 13 Burj Khalifa · 2010

Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

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