15 photos that show what famous places used to look like and what they are today

Time does not stand still and everything around us changes with it. For a few years this may not go unnoticed, but if you compare the same buildings now and several decades ago, you may be seriously surprised.

And what happens if you rewind the calendar to a few centuries ago! Here we have compiled some comparisons that will help you see for yourself how famous and less famous places have changed over the course of tens and hundreds of years.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Pancha Rathas in Bay of Bengal, India in 1825 and today

Street in Ephesus, Turkey in the 2nd century and today

Mount Rushmore, United States, 1922 and 2018

Statue of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, 1930 and today

Charles Bridge in Prague, early 20th century and today

Athens, 1954 and today

View of Rome from the banks of the Tiber in an 1834 painting and contemporary photograph

Street in Pittsburgh, United States. 1917 and 2021

Herculaneum, Italy. 79 and today

Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1910 and 2019

Arch of Constantine in Rome 1943 and 2021

In the past, craftsmen managed to create gizmos and build buildings that still amaze the imagination. Here we have collected some such cases.

Still from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966 and at the same location in 2020

Vladimir 1911 and 2015

The photo from 1911 was not colored afterwards. It was made by the pioneer of color photography in Russia, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Buddha statue in Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan. 1963 and 2008

Church of St. Martin in Cologne. 1946 and 2021

But some places never change, but are forgotten and abandoned by people. But that’s how many of them gain their own charm.

Source: twizz.ru

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