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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Rocca Sforzesca, Imola, Italy (lemmy.world)

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Mosaic bearing the symbol of the Punic goddess Tanit in Kerkouane, Tunisia (lemmy.world)

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Ruins of an Ayyubid mosque, Ezra, Syria (lemmy.world)

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Apamea, Syria (lemmy.world)

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Gates of Nicopolis, Greece (lemmy.world)

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The Roman Forum, Rome, Italy (lemmy.world)

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Ruins of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing, China (lemmy.world)

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Fort Jefferson (Dry Tortuga's National Park) (lemmy.world)

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Jefferson_(Florida)

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Bastion in Cospicua, Malta (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Abandoned village on the island of Hirta, Scotland (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sidon's Sea Castle, Lebanon (lemmy.world)

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Ajlun Castle, Jordan (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fortress of Klis, Croatia (lemmy.world)

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Remains of a Zoroastrian Fire Temple in Takht-e Soleyman, Iran (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Walls in Parenzo, Croatia (lemmy.world)

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A "Clapper Bridge" in Dartmoor, England (lemmy.world)

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Platamon Castle, Greece (lemmy.world)

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Fortified village ruins in Abyaneh, Iran (lemmy.world)

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Lindisfarne Castle, England (lemmy.world)

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Ancestral Pueblo ruins at Mesa Verde, USA (lemmy.world)

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Ancestral Puebloan ruins, Cedar Mesa, USA (lemmy.world)

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[Australia] Aboriginal Rock Huts at Tyrendarra, 2016 (quokk.au)

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West gate of Angkor Thom, Cambodia (lemmy.world)

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The Qasr al-Haj, Libya (lemmy.world)

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The Alcazaba of Malaga, Spain (lemmy.world)

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