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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Oldest road in Europe, Knossos, Crete (media.kbin.social)

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[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is this like a ship of Theseus situation, or is it the oldest unchanged road?

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I believe it's unchanged. The catch is that it hasn't been in continuous use - only about ~500 of its years, the first years, was it in use (and probably well maintained). After a massive collapse of civilization in Crete, much of the infrastructure was abandoned, ruined, forgotten about, buried, etc.

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

It was buried for maybe 3000 years, and excavated only a century ago.

[–] cosmic_cowboy@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

And the freshly paved road by my house seems to develop a pothole every February...