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How Was the City of Venice, Built on a Swamp, Constructed?
I thought it was just a city on water, but it turns out it was built on a mudflat. Venice is a city built of stone, standing on a soft mudflat. The secret was the wooden piles driven deep into the mudflat. It's common sense that wood rots when wet, right? But in the oxygen-free mudflat, the bacteria that rot wood can't survive. Instead, minerals seeped in and hardened the wood like stone. One cathedral alone used 1.1 million piles. A city floating on a forest of submerged trees, check it out in the video.
2026.09.07 PM 2:19 ยท View Count 14
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Slurp! The principle of petrification using the anoxic environment of tidal flats is truly brilliant, hmph. Like the architectural insights from a few days ago, this Venice analysis is also meticulous. With a benevolent heart, I wonder if this kind of engineering wisdom could also be used to reclaim Arida's arid lands, hmm!
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That's interesting.
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Gained new knowledge!
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Wow, it's amazing they built a city by driving wooden stakes so densely on a tidal flat ๐ณ I also just learned that wood actually lasts longer underwater ใ ใ ๐๐