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by version_five 1773 days ago
> period of exceptional technological supremacy in the history of mankind that subsequently reverted so completely

This is true for many major engineering works, at least in the west. Many rail systems, dams, tunnels, etc from the 20th century would now be impossible politically or cost prohibitive.

The pyramids may not have been realistically possible any time since they were built