Talk:Karamagara Bridge

Pointed arch
The claim of the bridge using pointed arch is dubious, the arch clearly looks eliptical or apse or parabolic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.211.98.231 (talk) 07:20, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Definitely not. Parabolic arches are a modern invention, and they look very differently. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 00:43, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Upon rereading on the subject, I noticed that same scholars designate these early 'pitched' bricks vaults such as the one of the palace at Ktesiphon or at the granaries of the Ramesseum in Luxor as elliptical or parabolic. Be it as it may these were invariably constructed of (usually unbaked) bricks whose specific properties could give them their peculiar shape in some cases. The arch of the Karamagara Bridge, however, is made of voussoir stones and for arches that use this method of construction, there is no evidence of a building tradition that employs elliptical or parabolic arches until, historically speaking, recent times. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 01:18, 14 May 2023 (UTC)