Top 5 Tallest Buildings Throughout History

This video will show the top five tallest buildings and structures from 4000 BCE to 2019.

For structures built after 1900, this video uses the 'architectural height' definition as set out by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). This definition includes spires, but excludes antennae, which will be shown in grey if applicable. A horizontal line will also be shown after 1900, showing the architectural height of structures. This definition also excludes all free-standing radio/broadcasting masts. Other omitted structures include bridges and offshore oil platforms.

Heights for structures that were destroyed before modern times are usually approximate. Approximate heights are denoted by a tilde (~).

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Music:
Lagua Vesa - Singularity

[OllieBye]

Just a fun little project I thought I'd try. Hope you like it!

[ProfessorPotatoPhD]

Pyramids of Giza casually being the tallest for over 3000 years

[EmperorTigerstar]

I like the detail of the Great Pyramid slowly shrinking due to erosion.

[incendiarybullet]

It took 3, 000 years for the pyramids to lose the top spot, and they’re still standing to this day.

Truly an amazing feat of architecture, a great testament of humanity’s capabilities.

[WTFCDFoxy]

The moment when you realize the first tallest building was 8 meters...

[cyrclack]

Nobody:

Cathedral Gang: Let us introduce ourselves

[takshashila]

When you build the tallest standing structure for well over 3000 years and everyone starts giving credit to Aliens.

[hotwax]

Not only did the Great Pyramid hold the top spot for over 3000 years, but it didn't fall out of the top five until about 1885. Amazing to think its streak lasted that long and ended so recently.

[SCP-utkf]

Think about it:
The Pyramids of Giza remained the tallest building from 0:35 to 4:46 and remained in the top 5 until 6:00.
2000 BCE to 1886. Nearly 4, 000 years.

[dailybonkers]

As a sri lankan im extremely proud of my small country once our structures only seconded to great pyramid 🙏🙏

[bapo]

Europe: Look at our beautiful cathedrals symbolizing our devotion to god!
America: T H I C C S T I C C

[gardist]

the tallest buildings started in the middle east and eventually returned to it

[jaywilliams]

3:09 *Yonging Pagda has joined the chat*

3:12 *Yonging Pagda has left the chat*

[beanburrito]

People are all commending the Pyramids, and that’s all well and good, but I feel like the La Danta Temple needs some credit as well. It was a Native American structure that lasted at least 2000 years in the top five, that’s impressive

[michka]

Giza Pyramid : exist

Lincoln cathedral : *I will end this prism whole career*

[tomasbulko]

"we did it boys, we built the tallest tower in the world. It shall serve as a beacon of our glorious civilization for a thousand years"

- the chinese, 516 AD -


"Are you sure about that? "

- lightning, literally 18 years after -

[micahistory]

Up until the 20th century, they were almost all religious buildings

[KF]

That rapid change from all American to all Asian in the 2010s was something.

[atticusshadowmore]

Giza: I am the tall-

Spires have entered the chat

[hirumalka]

Sinhalese Civilization had 2 entries in here despite being in a very small country. Those monuments are still preserved and Both Ruwanweliseya Stupa and Jetavana Stupa is worshipped to this day by Buddhists throughout the world.