ITT, ancient RUINS, ruined cities, oh look on my works, ye mighty and despair!

http://landlopers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_1272.jpg

chichen itza equinox snake

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)

iirc it is all dry stone walling done w/ amazing carving and a plumb bob

yea it's remarkable.

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

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

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?

Peruvian crazy paving!

also interesting to think that these buildings were created without wheels to move materials

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

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

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

OMG I want elephant stables now.

The manure-removal bills alone would ruin one.

I thought this was a gollum thread like "It ruins us - it RUINS us!"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/LaasqorayRuins09.JPG/800px-LaasqorayRuins09.JPG

las khorey, somalia

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/018/graphics/afghandesertruins.jpg

https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6198/6052617126_7cab383510_z.jpg

afghanistan

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Peru_-_Trekking_from_Urubamba_019_-_Incan_ruins_(8149153489).jpg

the andes

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

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

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

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

is that the one in star wars?

No, apparently that was Tikal (learned this just now from, ugh, Wookieepedia)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Panglao_watchtower%2C_Bohol.png

very taken with this filipino watch tower

al-waqfa 'ala al-atlal