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Do you pause to wonder, as you wander in the city, if the skyscrapers that tower all around you will live to be colossal Methuselahs or will, one day, in the distant future, give way to grander, more imposing successors?
That the marvels of our time, these picturesque masterpieces, will one day bow out? As humans head to their inevitable end, so do buildings. Even as they stand ever so majestically, the end is always in sight.
It takes several decades for some buildings to finally call it a day and pass the mantle to their successors. Yet some structures, such as the Megalithic Temples of Malta, which are considered to be the oldest free-standing structures on earth, are almost eternal, braving thousands of years of extreme weather, quakes and human activity. The temples date back to between 3600 BC and 700 BC.
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