They damned and drained the water.

The equipment to go under water is a lot older than you think too. Check out diving bells for some terrifying nightmare fuel.

Adding on to other answers, they do restore them somewhat. A lot of Greek temples and other structures look like ruins but are actually already partly restored, columns re-erected, parts replaced. The intent is to restore it enough to give an impression of what it would have looked like, without straight up guessing or causing damage to the parts that are there.

We COULD restore them with reasonable guesses, but they'll still only be guesses. Better to restore to a point we know, and let the mind do the work.

Have you seen what happened with many olimpic sites? They were not needed and a lot of them abandoned

First aiders don't really save lives, we just try to keep things going until the folk who can save lives turn up.

To add to what others have noted about it not being a diagnosed condition and more a symptom of an undsrlying cause, I also want to add it can be used in a situation with MULTIPLE underlying causes where "Exhaustion" is just easier.

Say you have someone who has the following issues: Disturbed or broken sleep cycle due to undiagnosed sleep apnea, malnourished becuase their diet isnt complete/varied enough, high stress fatigue due to constant financial concerns, hypertension, blood sugar approaching diabetic levels.

You know, a fairly common American adult trying to work a 9 to 5 thats more a 5 to 9 while being worried about everything under the sun.

One of the effects of all this is the person is regularly going to be bone tired due to the lack rest, high stress, and poor diet.

"Exhaustion" covers the resulting condition of all of those underlying factors because its not one diagnosis, its a lot.

>But they're probably not pinging and talking to the front desk every minute of the day

They actually are. Kinda.

There is a central server. Every time a card is swiped the lock asks the central server if the card is allowed to open that lock. The front desk can revoke (and provide) access from each card to each lock individually.

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Lucky she had a husband to support her for 2 years

My university teacher was on paid leave for 2 years due burnout. She was my masters thesis instructor, so we talked a bit about it after she came back and it sounded pretty scary. She'd picked up her kid from kindergarten, drove a bit, and then she had to call her husband because she had completely forgotten where she lived. She was instructed to avoid all stress until symptoms went away, and that's how long it took.

According to the national health service, condoms are 82% effective.

"Perfect use: 98% effective. This means that 2 in 100 women whose partners use a condom will get pregnant in a year.

Typical use: around 82% effective. This means around 18 in 100 women will get pregnant in a year".

Feeling my wife's wetness and warmth on my skin, and being able to ejaculate without pulling out, was well worth the vasectomy.

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I remember an architect saying:

The bridge is 20% a bridge and 80% how to put it there.

There are several ways, but can be grouped in:

Remove the water, literally temporarily reroute the river.

Redirect the water: build a dam around the future pillar location, drain the spot.

The floor is lava: rework the ground on the two sides to make it firm enough to place massive equipment, from which you launch the premade bridge over the gap.

The floor is lava but old school: you build a lightweight wooden/whatever bridge from the shore into the river, join with the same structure coming from the other side. Use this structure as a platform on which you build the bridge.

The pointy stick: you stick giant sticks in the water and put the bridge over those sticks.

The suspended thing: you build a cablecar-like thing, from which you deploy wire after wire until you have a “golden gate”thing. Then from those wires you work your way down to build the road part.

Ice is your friend: stick pipes in the water, run coolant in the pipes and create an ice wall. It can be done to help in any of the above methods, where applicable. Even to freeze the terrain to prevent water to filter into a hole/excavation/whatever.

In all cases, the problem is not being under water, most construction hate water or hate being jointed in water. So even if you are the chief of the scuba planet with millions of scuba soldiers, you probably want the structure to be built in a dry environment. Then you can flood part of it, but only after it’s assembled or cured.

The above methods can be mixed in many ways.

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"History needs to be preserved" is a very modern idea.

They don't need to talk to the front desk all the time. The front desk sends out a message anytime there's a change in the status of any particular key. If a new key is issued the server tells the lock the new key code. If a customer loses their key, the server deactivates that old key and issues a new code to the lock.

Up to two years in my country. Friend of mine has been off for 4 months due to burn out.

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I don’t know if you’re American, but think about buildings like:

-Michigan Central Station, Detroit (abandoned for decades, with some revitalization in progress)

-Any abandoned mall (abandoned, future tbd)

-Astrodome, Houston (abandoned, future tbd)

and ask how they fell into a state of abandonment and disrepair despite the governments of the United States and every state and local government that have jurisdiction over these respective structures staying intact. These buildings became old, expensive to maintain/renovate, and outlived their economic usefulness.

Same thing with these older buildings. Why pay to keep up an old stadium or temple that nobody uses anyway?

Additionally, it’s important to note that the nation that built the Colosseum is not the same nation that is called Italy today. Rome fell around 476 AD along with a lot of the wealth and infrastructure to support something like the Colosseum. Italy wasn’t reunited as a single nation until 1861. Rome didn’t surpass its ancient population until after WWII.

In my country, yes

Not for months at a time

The Colosseum has been under control of many different people and used for many different purposes. Each change resulted in modifications (ie the wooden seats were all removed to be used as barricades when people started using it as a fortress instead of a stadium).

A lot of the building has fallen down due to earth quakes. Some of which are quite recent. There's markers around the outside that show where the REAL outer walls should be. It used to be a lot bigger.

I mean, in every first world country you get paid leave for that.

'jomocda' is my in-joke with my friend and i dont even remember where it comes from