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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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I just had to read it up because I thought such masses of bricks came later and that they are not as long lasting. Turns out they are far far older and, at least when done properly, last >1'000 years. So all the crumbling/disintegrating bricks that I have seen were of low quality?! Boy oh boy.
Emperor Augustus said "I found Rome brick and left it Marble" (the secret being concrete with marble on the outside), so yeah brick has been around a while.