Ancient Architects | WHAT IS THIS?! Amazing Ancient Rock-Cut Structure in Afghanistan 🤩 @AncientArchitects | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 30 minutes ago.
Sometimes you come across something you’ve never seen before. At first I thought maybe this was some kind of modern bunker, but it turns out that this bizarre looking structure is more than 1,500 years old.
It’s known as Takht-E Rostam, a Buddhist Stupa monastery complex, located 2 km south of town of Haibak in northern Afghanistan. It’s entirely cut from the bedrock, a stupa surmounted by a harmika with several rough-cut caves around the base. A hoard of coins was found inside one of the caves.\
The purpose and importance of the monastery was lost in the Muslim conquests of Afghanistan. History fell into myth and legend but the site was incorporated into Persian mythology in the story of Rostam and Sohrab.
Learn more in a longer video on the Ancient Architects YouTube channel. Click here: youtu.be/uVGXLbelbZw
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Sometimes you come across something you’ve never seen before. At first I thought maybe this was some kind of modern bunker, but it turns out that this bizarre looking structure is more than 1,500 years old.
It’s known as Takht-E Rostam, a Buddhist Stupa monastery complex, located 2 km south of town of Haibak in northern Afghanistan. It’s entirely cut from the bedrock, a stupa surmounted by a harmika with several rough-cut caves around the base. A hoard of coins was found inside one of the caves.\
The purpose and importance of the monastery was lost in the Muslim conquests of Afghanistan. History fell into myth and legend but the site was incorporated into Persian mythology in the story of Rostam and Sohrab.
Learn more in a longer video on the Ancient Architects YouTube channel. Click here: youtu.be/uVGXLbelbZw
#ancientarchitects #ancienthistory #historyshorts
