Tartaria: Are the cool old buildings in your town the repurposed remains of a lost civilization?

[Warpy]

6. Exactly so. And while they didn't have diesel powered equipment

they certainly had steam powered equipment that was easily up to the job of lifting stone into place.

Before the Industrial Revolution, the stone had been lifted into place by men walking circular treadmills, a technology documented by the Roman Empire and likely far older.

It's just amazing to me that these idiots who think the world came into being at their birth don't know any of this stuff.

(FWIW, 3 of my grandparents were born close to the end of the Civil War and gave me their perspective on history)