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The Ç›ra¤an Palace in Istanbul after it
was burned and its interior design and
decorations destroyed. Someone look-
ing at the palace in this condition could
never fully imagine how magnificent it
had once been.
In tens of thousands of years' time, all that will remain of any of today's
buildings will be a few blocks of stone. Wooden materials, and objects made
of iron will rot away. For example, nothing will remain of the Çırağan Palace's
fine wall paintings, its beautiful furniture, its splendid curtains and carpets, the
chandeliers or other lighting equipment. These materials will decay and van-
ish. Someone coming across the remains of the Çırağan Palace in the distant
future may see only a few large chunks of stone and perhaps a few of the
palace's foundations. If it's suggested, on the basis of this, that the people of
our time had not yet established settled patterns of living and lived in primitive
shelters made by piling stones atop one another, this analysis would be com-
pletely mistaken.
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