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Author Topic: Sigiriya - a fortress in Sri Lanka  (Read 7392 times)

Solara

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Re: Sigiriya - a fortress in Sri Lanka
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2009, 08:47:22 pm »

Where's the love for Kaymakli?

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First floors of the underground city served as stables for the domestic animals, because upper floors were higher and convenient for this use. On the second floor a lying down blocking stone, some living rooms, cometery and Christian Church are available.

On the third floor too many storage rooms, mill stone to make flour, wineries to make wine and wine cellars to store wine. In some of the wine cellars, some of the broken wine jugs can be seen.

On the forth floor, there are some more wineries and grape storages. A long gallery leads people to the communial hitchen, In the kitchen too many food storage areas, ovens, a kind of hard stone which served multi functions, such as morter, melting copper, barricade to block the passage to stop enemies (bazalt or andezit stone).

In the underground city there are some main galleries and inside them same sub division were carved out make the city very complicated to make the enemies confused.

There were also some wide areas where some of the important matters were talked and ceremanies were hold. The ventilation shaft is vertical and passes all floors down like on the elevator in an apartment. The depth of the ventilation shaft is abaut 120 meters in total.
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Flying Carcass

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Re: Sigiriya - a fortress in Sri Lanka
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2009, 08:54:23 pm »

From the wikipedia article on sigiriya:
"Kasyapa murdered his father by walling him alive and then usurping the throne " <--- dwarfy

"Chronicles and lore say that the battle-elephant on which Kasyapa was mounted changed course to take a strategic advantage, but the army misinterpreted the movement as the King having opted to retreat, prompting the army to abandon the king altogether." <--- very dwarfy

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Untelligent

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Re: Sigiriya - a fortress in Sri Lanka
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2009, 10:24:38 pm »

Well that cinches it.  Someone needs to find a massive mountain and then form a "mega-construction" out of it by carving away anything that isn't part of the mega-construction instead of building it up.

The bottom half of the external portion of my tower was made like this. Would've done the rest of the tower like that if I had more mountain.
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