| Stairs have always played a central part in the
life of humankind. The art of stair building dates
back to 6000 B.C. Starting with the notched
logs of prehistory thru the Great 6000 granite steps
to the top of the sacred mountain Tai Shan in China,
(Confucius is said to have climbed to the top in 55
B.C.), to the circular stairs in the Castle Keep in
the Dark Ages. |
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| It became evident there was a military
application to the art, and by the 11th century,
England had developed the narrow, circular, interior
keep stairway: stone steps curving on the left, with
no rail, to be deafened by right-hand swordsmen at
the top of the stairs to Leonardo de Vinci’s
masterful drawings of multiple interwoven stairs of
the Middle Ages. |
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