Hello Tartaria Fam!
This post showed up on my feed, and I immediately thought — this totally seems like it had to be made by “Tartaria” or some older pre-Roman civilization?
The woman in that post photo standing next to the original bronze doors of the Pantheon Basilica di Santa Maria ad Martyres in Rome. These doors are about 24.7 feet tall, CAST FROM A SINGLE BRONZE POUR, and supposedly dated to around 128 AD. They are also the OLDEST KNOWN BRONZE DOORS ON EARTH.
I TRULY want to know just like the original poster- HOW WERE THESE MADE in One single pour- without power tools or any of the other modern equipment?? And why don’t we have the blueprints for this??
I looked up info about these doors and found there’s no surviving blueprint, named engineer for the doors, and even historians admit they don’t fully agree on how the casting was pulled off. The doors are so well-balanced one person can still open them by hand 1,900 years later.
The doors are supposedly made by bronze sheeting roughly 90% copper, 10% tin over a wood core. Some sources say they were cast in large sections and assembled but others argue for a continuous casting process but there’s no consensus.
We're talking about the doors to the Pantheon, one of the most famous buildings on the planet, and we genuinely don't know who built them.
I know that ancient artisans rarely signed their civic work, but is that the real reason, or just the easy one we use when nobody actually knows?
In 1757 a mason died trying to replace the door pins. After that one door stayed jammed shut for 241 years and didn't get fixed until 1998 by using soap lol!
The door carvings show just big geometric panels with bronze rosettes centered in the middle, fluted pilasters on the sides, egg-and-dart trim up top.
There's also six bronze lattice grilles above the doors that doubled as real ventilation for the whole rotunda which is pretty cool!
Some Christian details got added later once it became a church but the bronze itself doesn’t have any writing or depicting any other gods, which seems kind of strange for the Roman times.
Massive oversized bronze doors keep popping up across cultures that had zero contact with each other or shared blueprints and somehow they all land on the exact same idea.
If oversized doors and ceilings were being built consistently everywhere in the ancient world, maybe it wasn't about looking impressive at all. Maybe it was built to scale, for a civilization that was physically bigger or more capable than we give credit for??
If there's any truth to that, the doors and the bones aren't two separate weird stories. They're the same one. Physical proof of a bigger, older civilization getting erased on two fronts at once.
Are these doors just religious/architectural flexing repeated independently across cultures that happened to land on independently? (Which sounds fishy)
Does they hint at shared knowledge we've lost track of or built by a previous civilization? Does it all tie back to something that got buried on purpose by gatekeepers??
Let me know what y’all think below! (Also please be kind in comments lol!)
