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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Unfinished obelisk in Aswan, Egypt (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyruins@lemmy.world

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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 points 4 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@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I would guess there was an untenable crack

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 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