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 [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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Roman Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon (media.kbin.social)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, that's massive!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What is crazy is there are 3 stones that size there with a weight of 800 tonnes each, there is a 1,600t stone in a nearby quarry that never made it out of the quarry. There are a few other stones over 800t there as well.

Humanity today had trouble moving a 340t stone 106 miles. It took 11 days at 7mph to move it in place for the Levitated Mass art installation.

In the late 1700s Russia moved the Thunder Stone, a 1,500t rock that was carved down to 1,200t over the course of a 9 month journey to transport it 6km. They used only manpower to move it across land 150m a day with a special sled that rode on a track that used 6" diamter bronze balls to roll. The barge that carried it across water was specially made and was supported by two warships.