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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 !historyartifacts@lemmy.world
Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world
Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
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They build them with the rocks surrounding. These cliff faces will break off and shatter, leaving bunches of flat rocks that can be stacked and mortared together. If you zoom in, you can see the speckles of different colors in the walls.
I was there just last year. It’s amazing.
Cool, thanks!