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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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Unfinished obelisk in Aswan, Egypt (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by PugJesus to c/historyruins

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[–] d00ery 9 points 5 months ago

Interesting to see how it was carved from the surrounding rock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Man, I love this picture. The point of view, the arrangement, it gives a huge amount of drama and movement to a still image. Whoever took it has a great eye

[–] bandwidthcrisis 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I suspect that work on it stopped when someone asked "so, exactly how are we planning to stand it up?"

[–] Lon3star 2 points 5 months ago

I would guess there was an untenable crack

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

We should finish it.