Ruins on Iona!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nBZ_zzmArEQ/TJOFi1i9boI/AAAAAAAAAMc/WeQx0mQes0M/s1600/iona_nunnery_sm.jpg
Unfortunately only sheep, not coos. I don't think the Isle of Iona is big enough to fit a coo.
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
we have lots of cows and ruins both, no denying it.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Monday, 15 November 2010 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel I am perhaps being unfairly slanted towards British and Irish ruins.
Here are some Roman ruins
http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/syria/ancient_roman_ruins_aphamia_syria_photo_gov.jpg
http://www.seewald.com/images/Israel/RomanRuinsCaesaria2.jpg
I need to do some actual work, and then I am going to come back and post some ancient Egyptian ruins, I think.
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
pfft egypt what've they got?
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Monday, 15 November 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Well stop complaining and start posting some ruins, dammit.
I think this was the thread I was thinking of. Lots of nice ruins, and some operative castles, too!
Castles: C or D
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
some quality ruins up at my alma mater:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/St_Andrews_Cathedral_Ruins_Front.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3544/3306023486_cfd378121f.jpg
― xtc ep, etc (xp) (ledge), Monday, 15 November 2010 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39SjyMvBbk4
― caek, Monday, 15 November 2010 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I have so many ruins! But they're all at home as ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS therefore I cannot post them here.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Monday, 15 November 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Can you google pics you did not take?
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
The Palamidi Fortress at Nafplion, Greece
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Palamidi_castle.jpg
What you can't see, is that the ENTIRE THING looks like this inside:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Navplio_Palamidi-Treppe.jpg
...and apparently there's only one, maybe two routes that lead to the top of the fort. All others are FALSE, FALSE PATHS.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Monday, 15 November 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I've broken into that! Interrailing many many years ago, staying briefly at Nafplion, I can't remember where we were walking to or from but that was pretty much in the middle so we decided to visit it en route. Unfortunately when we got there it had closed for the afternoon, and going back down and all the way around would have taken far too long, so we hopped off the steps, scrambled up the bank and climbed up a wall, could even have been the one where mr white t-shirt is standing in the first pic. Went through the deserted fort and climbed out the other side.
― xtc ep, etc (xp) (ledge), Monday, 15 November 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
It's excellent! I didn't get to stay there NEARLY long enough, plus it overlooks the blue, blue sea so the view from every way is spectacular.
Ruined Philippi:
http://www.kairos-holidays.com/images/phillipi2.jpg
I was there on such a wet, foggy day -- you could hardly see the tops of the columns for the fog, much less more than 15 feet in front of you. At the time I was sorry it wasn't more view-able but now what I remember is the atmosphere and how much the lack of visibility isolated you everywhere you went.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Monday, 15 November 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Time to break out some old avebury photos
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/218/488961674_8da453119f.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 November 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Not actually the Abbey I was looking for, but it will do...
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~hsstnns/pictures/Yorkshire/fa1.jpg
(I can't remember the name of it, a country house built by a mad English nobleman (weren't they all?) which was supposed to be a picturesque half-ruined folly, but the tower was designed so badly that it fell down and rendered the whole house an actual ruin before the 19th Century was over. Oh what was its name, what am I thinking of?)
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
It was in Wiltshire! My ex had a stone head from it. Dammit, brain, why can't you remember things?
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I know the one you're thinking of but not so as Ic an remember the name.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 November 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.francethisway.com/images/places/chateau-gaillard.jpg
Château Gaillard
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://justenglishcottages.com/photogalleries/north-yorkshire/zim/Fountains-Abbey/92FountainsAbbey.jpg
Fountains Abbey
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Can we post non ANCIENT things here? Like menacing Nazi fortifications on the channel islands...
http://alex.fortif.net/images/ostrovy/r001-032.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/f13x0.jpg
― xtc ep, etc (xp) (ledge), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.outremer.co.uk/images/tower/krak.jpg
Krak des Chevaliers
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I do actually really love ruined WWII fortifications, so if they are properly abandonned and ruined I will allow them.
(What I don't want, is loads of decaying industrial factories and the like. Those have their own thread, I believe. I want castles and forts and abbeys and mysterious arrangements of rocks that you can't quite tell what they ever were.)
((Also, follies, though not technically ancient, are cool enough to be allowed))
http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/images/pictures/02/82/mow-cop-folly-27458.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Better photos here:
http://www.mowcop.com/
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know if this napoleonic fort fits with the above criteria, but it was heading that way, being somewhat on fire when we passed it
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2246/1880122176_327d9c73ae.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
It wasn't on fire, they were just burning junk in the central courtyard, IIRC. What a weird place that was! I was trying to remember where the odd fort-like folly (?) along the coast towards the Needles was, but got distracted by work.
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.jacklondonpark.com/WolfHouse3-1.JPG
Jack London's Wolf House
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow! What are those odd fireplaces that seem to be suspended in mid air? Were there presumably another story or two in wood that is now gone?
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah. He and his wife built their dream house
http://www.fineartandhistory.com/images/wolfhouse-bw.jpg
And several weeks before they were to move in, it burned.
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
SOUTHWEST REPREZENT!
Rhyolite, Nevada
http://photos.igougo.com/images/p7274-Rhyolite-Cook_Bank.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Mesa_verde_cliff_palace_close.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
http://planetpooks.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/chaco-canyon.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Canyon de Chelly
http://www.expeditionswest.com/adventures/2003/canyon_de_chelly_2003/images/4.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Nazca, Peru
http://westcoastconnection.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/nazca-lines1.gif
Those cliff dwellings are the BIZNIZZ. I was hoping for strange stuff I hadn't seen before and those are amazing. That last one with the two gaping caves on either side is almost lovecraftian.
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
It may not look like much, but here's the Lost City Of Ubar
http://www.davestravelcorner.com/photos/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_Oman-Ubar.JPG
The story of its rediscovery is pretty amazing and is like a roundup of everything I find cool: lost cities, the space shuttle, ancient roadways, and desert road tripping. If drone rock fit into it somehow I'd completely lose it.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Tenochtitlan
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Ruins_of_Tenochtitlan.JPG
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Machu Picchu
http://onearthtravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/machu-picchu.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Serpent Mound, Ohio
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2DP3vFOI5tc/SPr7KZL4tzI/AAAAAAAABtw/jt-tAqHeW-A/s400/serpentmoundpc.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
The architecture is so different from what I'm used to. Like they're building these massive structures and not even using arches. So strange looking and beautiful. (My archetypical idea of "ruins" clearly involves massive pointy gothic arches because I'm used to medieval Euro stuff.)
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon (can't stress how U&K a visit to Chaco Canyon is... there's a reason why Sagan put in Cosmos)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Chaco_Canyon_Pueblo_Bonito_doorways_NPS.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Chaco canyon is all the more intriguing because there's every indication it was not inhabited.
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Blythe Intaglios. Nazca isn't the only place where there are ancient geoglyphs. There's about 200 of these along the Colorado River in California and Arizona
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3111/3140812745_3c6c9c9ea9.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.culturefocus.com/syria/pictures/palmyra-6small.jpg
Palmyra
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Palenque
http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles/a101_Palenque1.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/sevcik/palenque-mayan-ruins--mayan-ruins-1.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_tt5Fzuyo1nc/SB4L64QSJkI/AAAAAAAAFZQ/YLV0lcZgjns/s640/image1-12.jpg
Persepolis
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Ephesus, Turkey
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/1b/2e/e4/celso-s-library-ephesus.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/348306257_19eb35196e.jpg
― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Had to google Palenque, coz yr first link didn't show, but is this the one, with the crazy vaguely pagoda shaped tower?
http://www.crystalinks.com/palenque.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
All Hail Chichen Itza
http://desktopnature.com/4271-2/Ancient+Mayan+Ruins_+Chichen+Itza_+Mexico.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
That's it. Palenque is pretty much o_O for off-the-charts Mayan architecture.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
another:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Sacsahuaman_wall3.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
ollantaytambo, another inca site. these monoliths are about 12 feet tall. the spanish tried to destroy them but they were too big:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Ollantaytambo_Monolithen.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
and machu picchu, which everyone knows the majesty of:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Machu_Picchu_early_morning.JPGmost amazing place i've ever been
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
teotihuacan about an hour outside of mexico city - these pyramids are basically about the size of the more famous egyptian pyramids:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/View_from_Pyramide_de_la_luna.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
another: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Pyramid_of_the_sun_teotihuacan_with_crowd.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
incan stonework is amazing
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
http://landlopers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_1272.jpg
chichen itza equinox snake
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
This one is like...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Sacsahuaman_wall3.jpg
How did they DO that? Is that dry stonewalling? The shapes of those blocks, in that immense size? Truly awe inspiring!
(Love those pyramids; I did a comic last summer with them as background)
― Branwell Bell, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
iirc it is all dry stone walling done w/ amazing carving and a plumb bob
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
yea it's remarkable.
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
this is a wall in cuzco, peru. there are TWELVE (12!) angles on this large stone:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Mur_Inca_Cuzco.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
also when i said the pyramids of teotihuacan were as large as the egyptian pyramids, i obviously meant the two big ones, not the smaller ones that decorate the avenue
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah, inca stonework is insane.
the spanish tried to destroy them but they were too big
portions of cuzco are basically colonial building on top of inca foundations- when the earthquakes come, guess which part persists?
― ale burphard iii (Hunt3r), Monday, 7 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
Peruvian crazy paving!
― Branwell Bell, Monday, 7 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
also interesting to think that these buildings were created without wheels to move materials
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
suspect the method arose from that lack of mobility. greeks built wooden wheels round their pillar segments and moved them into position. i think egyptian, meroitic & axumite monoliths were all carved at the quarry & moved on rollers
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7391/11286325465_9fd40605f1_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7422/11286664176_cf8fe6a321_b.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5182/5610097837_6e1dd527ec_b.jpg
vijayanagara, first photo is elephant stables
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Mohenjodaro_Sindh.jpeg
mohenjo-daro, pakistan
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tjZKErifi1Y/UAJ3zPCrmoI/AAAAAAAAMao/fh13xh3gU9o/s1600/013.JPG
bishop's palace, wells, england
http://www.evansadventuresafaris.com/gallery/zanzibar_ruins02.jpg
zanzibar
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
OMG I want elephant stables now.
― Branwell Bell, Monday, 7 April 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
The manure-removal bills alone would ruin one.
― già, ya, déjà, ja, yeah, whatever... (Michael White), Monday, 7 April 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
I thought this was a gollum thread like "It ruins us - it RUINS us!"
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 7 April 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/LaasqorayRuins09.JPG/800px-LaasqorayRuins09.JPG
las khorey, somalia
― ogmor, Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/018/graphics/afghandesertruins.jpg
https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6198/6052617126_7cab383510_z.jpg
afghanistan
― ogmor, Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:56 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Peru_-_Trekking_from_Urubamba_019_-_Incan_ruins_(8149153489).jpg
the andes
― ogmor, Saturday, 24 January 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.ancient-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/83742062.4BfR9mqL.Pohnpei0501179eo.jpg
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/thumbs/site_1503_0005-750-0-20160616154241.jpg
http://survincity.com/wp-content/uploads/images_4/nan-madol.jpg
http://www.ancient-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/83742065.5db77U2R.Pohnpei0501185eo.jpg
nan madol, micronesia
― ogmor, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:23 (seven years ago) link
http://www.beevar.com/upload/b/f0/bf0cbaf655c83a9a.jpg
http://whenonearth.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/kolmanskop-namibia-ghost-town-woe1.jpg
kolmanskop, namibia
https://erasingborders.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/img_2927.jpg?w=604&h=453
tamtoc, mexico
http://www.bulgariansun.eu/images/preslav1.jpg
preslav, bulgaria
― ogmor, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
old photos of old ruins takes it over the top...
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5634/32225563.96/0_abaad_845b3b2b_orig
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QW1PU8eLkxk/UUMlJBK0M-I/AAAAAAACgxA/uGXxh_GiWak/s640/Photographs+of+Old+Delhi+from+The+19th+Century+(24).jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eu5CdSz7n20/UUMlFea2juI/AAAAAAACgwA/YpLfdtjKayc/s640/Photographs+of+Old+Delhi+from+The+19th+Century+(16).jpg
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9328/97833783.526/0_be61b_2d2e30d3_XXXL.jpg
delhi
― ogmor, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
I agree with marcos that pre-Columbian Americas definitely bring the ruination mojo.
I very much liked Uxmal, in the Yucatan, particularly the may the Magician's Pyramid comes up out of the trees like O HAI THERE
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Qd3xWCJFeQ/maxresdefault.jpg
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
is that the one in star wars?
― ogmor, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
No, apparently that was Tikal (learned this just now from, ugh, Wookieepedia)
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Panglao_watchtower%2C_Bohol.png
very taken with this filipino watch tower
― ogmor, Monday, 9 September 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
al-waqfa 'ala al-atlal
― pomenitul, Monday, 9 September 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link