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\n(<\/a>not a Stromness house, but is an ancient structure from the Orkneys)<\/p>\n
Searching Google finds plenty of ancient constructions where walls are up to 5 metres thick – such as the Great Wall of China. The thickest walls of the Pentagon are three feet. Missile silos can have walls up to 14 feet thick.<\/p>\n
But the thickest walls belong to structures that most don’t think of in terms of walls – the pyramids. Most people think of pyramids as giant, filled structures, typically with a few odd empty spaces inside. In reality a pyramid is a building with a few rooms, surrounded by walls up to 100 metres thick. When you look at pyramids in this way, then the question that needs to be asked is, why did they need such thick walls?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once upon a time, when I ventured up to the Orkney Islands of Scotland (there are excellent standing stones and burial mounds there), I stayed overnight in a typical Stromness house, and they have walls four feet thick, due to the rough weather up there. That was impressive – a wall that should survive any hurricane.<\/p>\n
(not a Stromness house, but is an ancient structure from the Orkneys)
\nSearching Google finds plenty of ancient constructions where walls are up to 5 metres thick – such as the Great Wall of China. The thickest walls of the Pentagon are three feet. Missile silos can have walls up to 14 feet thick.
\nBut the thickest walls belong to structures that most don’t think of in terms of walls – the pyramids. Most people think of pyramids as giant, filled structures, typically with a few odd empty spaces inside. In reality a pyramid is a building …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunker","category-pyramids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}