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 Calascio, Italy (lemmy.world)

submitted 19 hours ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Dolbadarn Castle, Wales (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Rock-cut castle in Ortahisar, Turkiye (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21639480

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Monastery of Hripsimian Virgins, Turkiye (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Orlovi Skali, Bulgaria (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Apennine Colossus, Italy 1580 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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

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Chauteau de Kerjean, in the region of Brittany, France (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Château de Bonaguil, France (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Ark Fortress, Bukhara, Uzbekistan (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Black Middens Bastle House, a fortified farmhouse, UK (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Belogradchik Fortress, Bulgaria (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Cantalloc Aqueducts, Peru (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Dzordzor Chapel, Iran (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Front row seats at the Theatre of Dionysos, Athens, Greece (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Remains of King Herod's Palace, near Bethlehem, Palestine (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Castello Aragonese, Italy (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Beseno Castle, Italy (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Dunnottar Castle, Scotland (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Roman bath in Gafsa, Tunisia, still in use (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Taq Kasra, remains of the Persian capital of Ctesiphon, modern-day Iraq (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Remains of a Roman military latrine along Hadrian's Wall, Britain (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Luxor Temple, Egypt (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Inside of the Roman Delikkemer aqueduct in modern-day Turkiye (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Lohagad Fort, India (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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Hattusa, capital of the Hittites, Turkiye, with reconstruction illustration (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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