this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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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 !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

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[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Gondar calls for aid!

[–] Lembot_0001@lemm.ee -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What happened there? Americans? Russians? Hippies?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

The cruel and inexorable passage of time, and civil war. Also probably the classic human tradition of scavenging from old buildings for material during periods of intense construction.