The Old World & Timeline Anomalies

I have to say that the architecture of The Strasbourg State Library has really caught my attention. So Wikipedia says it was was founded on June 19, 1872, after the destruction of the previous municipal library during the Franco-Prussian War and after being reconstructed it was reopened in 1895. However I couldn't find when the previous Library was constructed before it was destroyed in the Franco-Prussian war so if anybody has any information on this it would be much appreciated.

So this is where I am finding the discrepancy in the timeline, does that Trinity of Pharaoh's heads look German to you? And the thing is that you could put it down to the style of the time but you can't even really do that. Because this is not the 1920s this is 1872.

You see in the 1920s there was something called Egyptomania, yes really was a thing. There was an intense, widespread fascination with ancient Egypt, that they expressed in art, architecture, fashion, and culture at the time.

The primary driver of this cultural phenomenon was the discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922 by the British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team. This remarkably well-preserved find, untouched over the millennium, unleashed a global "Egypotmania” that saturated Western popular culture throughout the entire decade.

In fact the Egyptian influence on the culture at the time inspired the Art Deco period, with motifs like lotus flowers, scarabs, and pyramids, plus opulent materials and geometric patterns, blending ancient grandeur with modern sleekness in jewelry, fashion and architecture which created the exotic look that defined the Roaring Twenties' glamorous style

Bold, monolithic structures of ancient Egyptian temples, obelisks, and stepped pyramids inspired the monumental scale and streamlined, sleek shapes of Art Deco skyscrapers. The clean lines, angular forms, and symmetry inherent in Egyptian architecture, such as the pyramid, were directly incorporated into Art Deco's core design principles, featuring zigzags, chevrons, and setbacks. Lotus flowers and papyrus blooms also appeared as decorative elements, particularly on column capitals, and winged solar disks were used above entrances. Sphinxes and pharaonic statues were used as decorative guardians on facades and Hieroglyphics and scarab beetles were stylized into repeating patterns for decorative purposes.

So my question is, why does an ancient German Library have Three Pharaoh heads at the entrance way before the Egyptian style had even entered into social consciousness and popularity? And how did they construct these insanely grand buildings when the main mode of construction was horse and pulley. It's just never made sense to me and I guess it's only now more people are questioning it.

This is what it looks like after more reconstruction in 2014, note the absence of the Pharaoh's Heads.

Anyway I am looking into all these Old World building because the architecture is encoded within divine numerology. I haven't delved into the numerological aspect of the Strasbourg State Library but I will in due time, it just caught my attention when I saw the Pharaoh Heads because they looked so out of place for the style at the time. Once I have completed decoding the divine numerology in the architecture of Strasbourg Cathedral I will return to this beautiful structure and see what I can find.