Photos of ruins and structures from past eras

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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@kbin.social Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to HistoryDrawings@kbin.social Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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Sumela Monastery, Turkiye (media.kbin.social)

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[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What I want to know is how they started building that? How did they put the first stones? With a helicopter??

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

Probably dug out from the cliffside - some lovely little narrow ledge deepened just enough to get a foothold on, and then brick up a wall on the side that gives you vertigo when you look down.

Probably some poor sod hanging from a rope to put the finishing touches on the outside, lmao.

[–] Another3quenc@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Not sure how they did everthing, but these kind of buildings are mostly made out of the rock itself, acting as a base