History Ruins

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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like. Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to [email protected] Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected] Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to [email protected]

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Fortress of San Leo, Italy (lemmy.world)

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Ruins of the medieval abbey at Bellapais, Cyprus (lemmy.world)

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Themopolium (street food vendor) in Pompeii, Italy (lemmy.world)

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Roman road connecting Turkiye and Syria (lemmy.world)

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Mayan ruins of Uxmal, Mexico (lemmy.world)

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The Chand Baori stepwell in India, constructed ~900 AD (lemmy.world)

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Scotney Castle, UK (lemmy.world)

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Mayan Temple at Calakmul (lemmy.world)

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Bronze age deer stone megaliths in Mongolia (lemmy.world)

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Ruins of the Great Mosque of Kilwa, Tanzania, East Africa (lemmy.world)

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Tunnels of the Roman Emperor Claudius, used for lake drainage (lemmy.world)

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Walls of Aurelian, Rome, Italy (lemmy.world)

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Illustration of the construction of Great Zimbabwe, with modern ruins (lemmy.world)

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Fort Srebrna Góra, Poland (lemmy.world)

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Walls of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, 17th century AD (lemmy.world)

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Puye Cliff Dwellings, New Mexico, USA (lemmy.world)

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Rumkale, Turkiye (lemmy.world)

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Por-Bazhyn, ancient Uyghur palace built in the middle of a Siberian lake (lemmy.world)

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Helical stepwell in Walur Village, India (lemmy.world)

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'Cliff Palace', massive and ancient Ancestral Puebloan settlement, southwestern USA (lemmy.world)

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Ruins of Old Castlemacadam Church in Ireland (lemmy.world)

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Ruins of the Hellenistic city at Ai Khanoum, modern-day Afghanistan (lemmy.world)

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Walls of Trebizond, modern Turkiye (lemmy.world)

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Ancient walls of Great Zimbabwe in, er, modern-day Zimbabwe (lemmy.world)

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Caerphilly Castle in Wales (lemmy.world)

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