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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.

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Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected]

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Three periods of architecture built ontop of one another - Cyclopean, Roman, and Medieval - Porta Sanguinaria, Ferentino, Italy (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Cyclopean???? These were real?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's a type of architecture. The Greeks once thought they were made by cyclops on account of how massive the stones were, and how impossible it seemed for human hands to move so many so great a distance, hence the name. In reality, they were just made by prior civilizations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

link does not explain how they built with such large stones. Is there a better theory than cyclops?

[–] agamemnonymous 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We can't rule out two-eyed giants obviously

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