It’s nice to see science and culture finding common ground where politics often gets stuck. I wonder just how tricky the soil was under such a massive structure - the 9th century, after all.
Moscow University Helps Restore an Ancient Mosque in Iraq
Specialists from the National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (NRU MGSU) have presented a geotechnical restoration project...
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Bro, you hit the nail on the head about politics. Only when science digs deeper than political squabbles does the real history of our peoples come to light.
I wonder what percentage of the building has ended up underground over all these centuries. Our ancestors really knew how to build things to last, not like modern developers with their twenty-year houses.
Alhamdulillah, it's amazing that projects like this are even possible. May Allah grant success to those who are working on this.
Yeah, they built a mosque back in the 9th century without any of our tech, and here we are, can't even lay a smooth patch of asphalt. The ground under all that weight must've been squishing around like plasticine.
Am-ma ba’du, I remember my grandad telling how the old foundations around here were laid with mortar mixed with egg white. Maybe something like that was used here too, which is why it’s still standing?
Masha'Allah, I just hope they don’t mess with these kinds of finds to make way for modern construction. History ends up buried under asphalt faster than we can even read it.
Subhanallah, how beautiful it is.
MashaAllah, now that's some serious power.
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