^ because they are timeless.
Probably the most permanent physical structures our species has ever built (other than the spacecraft we've sent out into the cosmos).
The thread title mentioned nothing about innovation or advancement, just "importance", and there are many different ways to interpret that.
any grand-scale human-built structure that stands for 4,500 years automatically rises to the top of "importance".
call me when the pantheon or chartres cathedral or whatever make it another several millennia.
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