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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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Stone ruins along the Swahili Coast (infosec.pub)

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 3 weeks ago

A mosque, part of a larger settlement with houses and tombs. I don't doubt that it could have been involved with the Indian Ocean slave trade but so far as I can tell it wasn't specifically dedicated to that

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