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
I always wonder how this nation would look if we hadn’t committed a genocide against the natives.
You ever heard of the gigantic animal depictions that used to sprawl the north east? There are a few still around, but seeing what they had originally done with the land would be jaw dropping.
That's amazing. Did they just carve it all out of the cliff?
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!