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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.

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Remains of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing, China (upload.wikimedia.org)
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[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Different angle in a post from 3 months ago: https://piefed.social/c/historyruins/p/1459666/ruins-of-the-old-summer-palace-beijing-china

I remembered, I saw this somewhere recently, it was here!

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, it's not that old, construction began in 1707. I needed a frame of reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace#History

[–] pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Not an Elder Scrolls screenshot?