HistoryRuins

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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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Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, modern-day Mexico (media.piefed.social)

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Sudak Fortress, Crimea, Ukraine (media.piefed.social)

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Ruins of the castle of Nový Hrádek, Czechia (media.piefed.social)

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Roman ruins beneath a modern street in Verona, Italy (media.piefed.social)

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Janjira Fort, India (media.piefed.social)

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Su Nuraxi, Sardinia (media.piefed.social)

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15th century AD house of a Christian monk, Suceava, Romania (media.piefed.social)

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Pre-Columbian Aqueduct around Cumbemayo, Peru (media.piefed.social)

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Inca Terraces in Cusco, Peru (media.piefed.social)

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Mausoleum in the monastery of Geghard, Armenia (media.piefed.social)

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Bunker used by company thugs to fire upon agitated workers, Mine Wars, West Virginia, USA, ~1912? (media.piefed.social)

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Minaret of Jam, Ghor, Afghanistan (media.piefed.social)

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Ancient underground refuge, Shanxi Province, China (media.piefed.social)

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Remains of a house in central Georgia, USA, built in 1894 (media.piefed.social)

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Inside the Dolmen de Soto in Spain (media.piefed.social)

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Hartashen Megalithic Avenue, Armenia (media.piefed.social)

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Citadel of Aleppo, Syria (media.piefed.social)

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Amphitheatre of El Jem, Roman Africa, modern Tunisia (media.piefed.social)

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Aerial view of the Roman amphitheater at El Jem, Tunisia (media.piefed.social)

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Ruins of Attock Fort in Pakistan (media.piefed.social)

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Rock of Cashel, Ireland (media.piefed.social)

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Grimmenstein Castle, Austria (media.piefed.social)

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Fortress of Masada, Israel, with the siege ramp built by the Romans to take the fortress still partially extant (media.piefed.social)

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House in Byzantine Sergilla, modern-day Syria (media.piefed.social)

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Remains of the stone fort Dun Aonghasa in Ireland (media.piefed.social)

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