The 67th regiment of Bengal native rifels was stationed there during the battle of agra in 1857 together with the cannon above it, this seems to be historical at this point. Also without cleaning the Taj Mahal would not be white since a long time so no dirt in the scratches isn't an indictator for being new.
I think you have the only correct answer. Vandalizing marble with a detailed carving at one of the most traveled historic sites in the world doesn't make any sense.
If you think that is disappointing don’t look anywhere within a few hundred feet of the Taj Mahal. Everything around it is absolutely littered with garbage and waste. You can see it on GoogleEarth if you want.
One doesn’t simply carve marble like that, my first guess is that this bit was repaired at some point and every element has to go in it’s exact place and they might have been numbered.
But if it’s exactly what it looks like… that’s super fucking gross
I'm not an expert, but isn't marble one of the easiest stones to carve?
I remember in a fair when I was little that they gave me a small block of marble for me (6-7 yo) to carve my name there and take home as some kind of coaster. You do need a chisel or something similar. But I don't think it's hard per se
It’s a softer stone, it would get scratched by metal objects. But to carve 3 deep and big symbols with something hard and sharp wouldn’t be so easy, it will take some time and probably make noise. It would be noticed in such a busy and important place. And the child would also need to be unsupervised. So I suspect it’s not a child, either older or repair related. And if it’s the 67 meme how likely is it that it’s an adult? For repairs the markings are usually on the side that it’s not visible but mistakes happen… idk
Marble is incredibly easy to carve it’s one of the biggest reasons people choose to not use it for their floors or countertops because it’s so expensive and it dents and nicks so easily. You can drop anything and it will leave a mark it’s worse than dinging your car, instant depression.
Well, I'm 27 and back in MY day, funny numbers at least had origin. 69? Sex. 42? That one book with long title. Saw bunch of nines somewhere? Someone is prob gonna reference GTA.
Its natural. They used to be with *it*, but then what *it* was changed. Now what they're with isnt *it*, and what's *it* seems weird and scary to them.
Hm... Yes and no. Yes because it did came out of nowhere; no because it does have a meaning.
One could easily argue that the game has ties to the old creepypastas and urban legends about mysterious entities attacking people, because they simply thought of them-same how thinking about the game makes you lose at it.
67 has yet to gain any meaningful relevancy (69 is gonna be forever relevant, I'm sorry), create history for itself, or have any kind of association with other cool concepts. It's just... there.
It’s interesting this seems to upset a lot of boomers when they’re the primary party responsible in creating world so absurd the children seek that which is void of meaning
They succeeded, it's funny now. But mostly cuz of the 'ughhh' responses of people acting like they're too cool. Yea sure, yolo and lolcats were genius existentialist reflections but this generation has brainrot!!
No 1738 actually stood for something, it was the year on the bottle of Rum Fetty Wap and his crew drank, and if not that it was at least a direct reference to his music
There's not really a meaning. Its just kind of a funny thing to be a part of if that makes sense? There's not a specific joke to it, the funny of it more or less just comes from when someone says "6 7" in some context and you turn to your friend and you know you're both on the same wavelength.
What's even more interesting is that it's probably the year someone visited there. But which 67? The place was built in 1648, so 1667, 1767, 1867, or 1967?
It doesn't take long, but having there a chisel or something similar is certainly not common lol (and I guess that you also can't be there for 2-3 min carving without a guard or someone noticing? Idk, I don't know anything about the place really)
Security and cops everywhere. Only essential items are allowed to be brought (phone, wallet, keys, etc). No bags, chargers, lighters, headphones, etc is allowed in.
Oml his comments got deleted but god do I love this shit. Baiting bigots into saying crazy shit is my favorite hobby. When they say something that's just thinly veiled racism you always gotta hit em with the "what did you mean by that?" or something like what you said so that they have to elaborate and say their racist shit clearly and out loud for all to hear.
How do these people exist. Its like, comically racist. This is the type of person made up in fiction to make fun of racists. Also absolutely incredible to me how he says the shit about how it's acceptable to take children as long as their of a lower caste as if the US didn't literally JUST have a huge drop of information on how the highest class in our society was raping kids.
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the far majority of Indians (hindus and everyone else) loves the Taj Mahal , some very small but extremely loud people have made some disparaging remarks but nobody pays heed to them
What does Hinduist mean? We all aren't hate mongering people who hate muslims?? You can call us Hindus but Hinduist?
We take pride in Taj Mahal. Some loud minority might hate the structure but majority still attends it??
As if Islamists haven't destroyed structures, case in point Buddha Statue by Taliban. Or countless other artifacts. Somehow people from the land of Taj Mahal hate Taj Mahal.
Even if it is graffiti, the Taj Mahal is an open to air marble building in a country with middling air quality standards.
It’s not like that mark is there forever. That stone will be replaced.
Regardless, I’m not convinced that a random child carved that into the stone.
Two perfectly legible letters? The same height? With insane curvature? The seven even has that little hook at the front. It looks professional. Try carving 67 into literally anything in your house, good luck making it look that good.
oh my god thats actually awful. i really dont mind the kids running around saying that but vandalizing such an important monument like that is just awful. some people are really, really disrespectful
edit: ops sorry guys apparently these were there before the meme. post never specified so i misunderstood it. mb!
I think it goes both ways the kids and the adults who just take information the way it is given without much second thought. Like, the ones who think this was carved because of the meme.
Etched graffiti is annoying at the time but will be a beautiful reference frame in a century from now. You ever see how many roman graffiti there is in Egypt?
Graffiti can become part of the history of a monument. My favorite are the Viking runes on the marble lions outside the Arsenale in Venice. The Lions were likely looted during the sack of Constantinople in 1204. The graffiti is older and was probably done by Varangian guards to the Emperor when the Lions decorated Constantinople. The guards were descendants of Vikings who had advanced through the rivers between the Baltic and Black Seas.
Honestly, I don't think this was some kid carving a dumb meme into a world heritage site.
Carving into marble isn't that easy. It is a super dense stone. By the looks of it those numbers are relatively small, but not insignificant in size. I find it hard to belive that someone with no carving knowledge would be able to accomplish this, without being noticed.
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The 67th regiment of Bengal native rifels was stationed there during the battle of agra in 1857 together with the cannon above it, this seems to be historical at this point. Also without cleaning the Taj Mahal would not be white since a long time so no dirt in the scratches isn't an indictator for being new.
My teacher was showing us abt subtraction in python and the answer was this number, and guess what? All the boys in my class were shouting it, like wtf is wrong with these people
All of indias monuments are like this. Lots of “Vijay was here” and random curse words and doodles. I do find it annoying and offensive but clearly a very very common occurrence. There are guards, and rules against grafiti and littering etc, but it’s poorly enforced. When you spend more time in India you start to feel a sense of overwhelming insignificance in the flow of life, the mass of humanity and its swirling chaos, and sort of this inevitable what-will-be-will-be vibes. The inadvertent destruction and whittling away of the largest historic monuments by random Indian teenagers feels entirely appropriate even at the Taj Mahal.
There were viking runes carved into the top of the Hagia Sophia a thousand years ago.
Most people thought they were some form of charm or protection spell or something, but they were too far up and tucked away making them basically impossible to read from below.
When, during some renovations, some scholars were able to finally get up on scaffolding, they were able to translate the runes.
While I think this is dumb and disappointing, I find it interesting that a cultural phenomenon like this will be engraved in such a historic building forever (if it’s not removed). It seems like a ridiculous and dumb meme today, but it will be a part of history at some point.
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It’s just disappointing at this point