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 Masada, Israel, with the siege ramp built by the Romans to take the fortress still partially extant (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You're saying a TV show was allowed to damage an archaeological site? Isn't it also a national park?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Back in the seventies they didn't much care for those sorts of... pesky details for archeology nerds.

When the Mexican government - tourism or culture departments, or even if federal or state level, I'm not sure - mounted a permanent evening light show at Teotihuacán. They "tidied up" the place, filling in holes and pockets in the pyramids with cement, they drilled into them to run up the wiring and mounting the light stands, etc.

They basically committed every contemporary sacrilege except using dynamite.