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  Jetavanaramaya

  How did 3rd-century Sri Lankan builders stack tens of millions of hand-made bricks into a 122-metre solid dome — the largest brick structure ever raised — and get the foundation, the brick chemistry and the dome's profile right enough that it is still standing 1,700 years later?

  c. 273-332 CE (Anuradhapura period; begun by King Mahasena) · Anuradhapura, North Central Province, Sri LankaAdded September 2026
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  Taq Kasra, the Arch of Ctesiphon

  How did Sasanian builders raise a 25-metre unreinforced brick vault to a height of 37 metres with no timber centring holding it up — and how did they arrive at a curve that European engineers only described mathematically eleven centuries later?

  3rd–6th century CE (Sasanian; most often placed c. 540 CE under Khosrow I) · Ctesiphon, Salman Pak, Baghdad Governorate, IraqAdded September 2026