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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_of_Claudius

[–] newnton 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

built by 52 AD

It was the longest tunnel ever built until the inauguration of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel in 1871

Holding the record for 1,819 years is absolutely insane

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Go big or go home!