Tag: oldest buildings

• Still Standing: why do old buildings survive?

  

  I mapped all 6,837 buildings and structures in Wikidata from before AD 1100. 65% were built for worship, most still are, and the survivors are either indispensable or forgotten.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  architecture, churches, data visualisation, heritage, history, maps, oldest buildings, Wikidata