There might be other counterexamples but as someone said it all depends on whether the structure found

You should check out the valley of the temples in Agrigento Sicily. There is a Parthenon-like structure there that’s in better shape along with seven other Greek structures from around 450bc.

valley of the temples

I am not sure if this is the cause of the misconception but the stomach is not a giant empty bowl where everything enters, is mixed, and sometimes it opens and let everything flow somewhere else. Food moves through it

> probably as old as humanity itself.

Eh, well, it's probably slightly younger than however long people have been building stuff, heh

No, that was a direct response to your comment. A restoration of the parthenon with bright colors would still be a projection of our current ideas onto the past. It might be a more accurate projection, but it's still just a projection not the actual historical thing.

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Another example is the Sphinx, which had it's nose until Napoleon's troops used it for target practice.

they even played a hockey game at the arena in Pula in 2012

Nope. Some hard to digest foods can pass all the way through intact. Of course they have to be of a size that can fit in your intestines. Some berries come to mind as an example.

It was, next to the other given reasons, also done semi-intionally targeted against the "heathen pagan religions of old". In the past, there were many Christian and Muslim groups actively despising or destroying pagan monuments (even still in the modern era, see the Taliban for example).

Libertarians don't factor in that companies conspire together against consumers, and actively buy out all their competition. Furthermore a lot businesses WANT to be bought out.

They also don't live in this thing we call reality

You underestimate how expensive fighting can be.

Lets say that someone comes along and accuses you of a workplace sexual misconduct situation. You own the company, so there's no risk of being fired. But there's a public reputation element that could cost you customers in the long run. You know you didn't do it, but proving that is difficult. It becomes a situation where they are accusing you, and you are denying it but neither side really has a lot of evidence one way or the other.

Public opinion would be against you, and that could have negative ramifications for your career even if the accuser eventually loses in court. Court records are public, so IF it goes to court everyone is going to know what you have been accused of.

You sit down with your lawyer. They tell you that the legal fees would likely be in the $250,000 range if it goes to court. In addition you estimate that you would lose $10,000,000 in business by customers dropping you because they don't want to be associated with someone who's accused of that.

Then, if you lose, you'd likely have to pay the accuser an additional $10,000,000. So there's no scenario where if you take this to court you don't lose at least $10,250,000 but could be as much as $20,250,000.

You offer the ex employee $1,000,000 to just drop the whole thing, and they agree.

Yet another thing I didn’t know. Thanks again

....? Respond to the wrong comment?

To add to this, ancient buildings like the Colosseum or Parthenon requires a master skill level. You can't just have a regular guy walk in and repair. They need to be skilled in ancient busing repairs.

Its similar to old paintings. You can't just use new paint over them, you have to artificially age the paintings and crack the paint to make it blend in.

You're saying the Vatican, Rome never had enough finances to provide upkeep?

Doubtful

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The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) are typically still considered as “developing” economies, they still have a lot of people living either without modern conveniences or in total squalor (or both).

The frustrating thing is that the casings on the pyramids survived for thousands of years, until the relatively recent middle ages, when the ruler of Cairo, Salahadeen's son, ordered that the pyramids be torn down. He wasn't successful, obviously, but we no longer get to experience the pyramids as they were created

How do you define 'engaging in agriculture or livestock' - as in the farmers that raise the cattle and plant the crops, or anyone that 'engages' in the agriculture/farming industry? (e.g truck drivers, feed suppliers, crop processors etc)

Ticketmaster cuts venues out of their circuit if they organize an event without them.

So, from the venues standpoint going rebel is a massive risk. What if the rebellion doesn't succeed? They're basically a venue with almost the entire market blocked off from them by Ticketmaster.

I wouldn't be surprised if they have a similar thing going with the artists themselves.

And so would any aggressive "restoration" of the original Parthenon. If you want to see what it looked like when it was new, build a replica, like they did in Tennessee. The original bears the marks of history, and if you erase those marks, you erase that history.